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The author of my favorite children's book has died. The New York Times on Madeleine L'Engle: The book used concepts that Ms. L’Engle said she had plucked from Einstein’s theory of...

"Poetry is so much a part of people's lives that crowds often assemble in the villages around a narrator who recites and interprets the epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, and...

I’ve written about this a number of times before in other venues, and the story hasn’t changed: when I was straining to learn English as a recent immigrant at a...

...but there's a little wisp of a rumor that somewhere, someday, you may be able to get up close and personal with the bloggers of Harriet. Not only will you...

For a long time, I have wondered what the West Indies' two living Nobel Laureates thought of each other’s work and success. Perhaps there exists some recent article somewhere by...

“Heavenly Blue” morning glories sufflated by this new breeze come upon us now, coincident with a ritual the French actually have a word for, “la rentrée”*—applying equally to grownups back...

Yes, poetry can be sexy and deathly and beautiful all at once. The dark eroticism of this poem is an artful re-imagining of a familiar fairy tale figure—sexual hunger and desire...

You'll find in the September issue of Poetry a very lively debate about Michael Hofmann's review of the new Collected Poems of Zbigniew Herbert. His piece, "A Dead Necktie"...

Andromaque, je pense à vous! Ce petit fleuve, Pauvre et triste miroir où jadis resplendit L’immense majesté de vos douleurs de veuve, Ce Simoïs menteur qui par vos pleurs grandit, A fécondé soudain...

It occurred to me today that I have been using personal computers since 1988. Prior to that, I had a tangential relationship with computers. I had people use them to...