Successful Poets Who Kept Their ‘Other’ Jobs August 14, 2012: While many of us dream of becoming full-time writers, the fact is, several of the most successful poets in recent history have remained at their day jobs. Here are some examples from Publisher's Weekly. Wallace Stevens Day Job: Insurance Executive In perhaps the most direct refusal to trade in a 9-to-5 for a laurel-resting [...] by Harriet Staff

“But translating a poem is like covering a song” March 12, 2012: David Orr at the New York Times Sunday Book Review has a great article on translating the poetry of Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer. As always, the question of a translator's fidelity to the meaning or to the spirit of a poem is raised. And this is where Orr begins: But what’s unusual about Transtromer is that the most interesting [...] by Harriet Staff