In an email interview, the poet celebrated reading aloud, romance novels and bringing libraries to prisons. SCOTT HELLER What books are on your night stand? “Joyful,”...
To this end, and true to its title, there is no shortage of indulgence in “Ecstasy.” The characters in these poems party hard; there is plenty...
In a book of “pep talks and practical advice,” the author of the memoir “You Could Make This Place Beautiful” shares 10 key ingredients to creativity....
Poems don’t have to be perfect, but this one pretty much is. I mean that less as praise — though it is a long-time favorite —...
Pierre Joris, a poet and translator who tackled some of the 20th century’s most difficult verse, rendering into English the complex work of the German-Romanian poet...
Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school sonnet, orderly...
Mr. Stern’s life was as colorful, confusing and sometimes chaotic as his art. He was born Gerd Jacob Stern in Oct. 12, 1928, to a Jewish...
This was clearly a useful way of being possessed. It was the lens through which Mr. Longley examined the Northern Irish situation. He “had an uncanny...
Maria Teresa Horta, a Portuguese feminist writer who helped shatter her conservative country’s strictures on women, died on Feb. 4 at her home in Lisbon. She...
By 2 a.m. we were happily lost again. Dimly illuminated arches and doorways reflected off the green canal waters. My daughter, Vivian, 16, and I were...
