Widower's Tango

I was drawn to a particular poem last month after watching a documentary film about Robert Frost. This is the poem: AFTER APPLE-PICKING ...

America is such a relatively new place, especially the farther west you go, that you can often find yourself living in a community, or a p...

Thanksgiving Day 1991. I was living in Fallon, Nevada, a small town about an hour's drive east of Reno on U.S. Highway 50, known a...

As I watch, from the other side of the world, the disaster in the Carolinas wrought by Hurricane Florence, I have very mixed feelings. I ...

Patricia and V. S. Naipaul I feel obliged to write a few passing words on the passing of V. S. Naipaul , who died on Saturday. I had k...

The qualities that distinguish the poetry of Philip Larkin (1922-1985) - accessibility both formal and syntactical, traditional meter and...

Since the 19th century, has anyone made a good living writing poetry? Thomas Hardy, who was one of the most prolific poets of his time,...