Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...
Dame life, tho' fiction out may trick her, And in paste gems and frippery deck her; Oh! flickering, feeble, and unsicker I've found her still, Ay wavering like the willow wicker, 'Tween good and ill.
In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...
I started my entire life over from zero and was dead broke and ... Allen celebrates the launch of his 10th published collection of poems called “The Mansion” (Gnashing Teeth Publishing ...