In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...

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Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated ...

In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in ...

Gabriela Mistral was a woman who forged herself amidst nature, facing the sea and surrounded by books—a frustrated mother and ...

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

Piedmont Arts brought poet, scholar and musician TJ Anderson III to Martinsville for a free talk featuring readings of his ...

There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English translation of those poems, starts with selections from A Girl’s Mind, published in 1939 when she was 21, and ends with poems ...

Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London's swinging '60s who survived drug addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and COVID-19, died at age 78, after a singing career that began as a teenager ...

As a performer I was only average,” she wrote in her 1994 autobiography, “Faithfull.” Yet she made a triumphant comeback with the Grammy-nominated album “Broken English” (1979 ...

“In the autobiography, the reader will obviously be able to get a look into his personal life, his priestly life, and the entire pontificate. But it’s clear that hope has been the glue that ...