Over their long friendship, Reading says, “Katharine almost literally saved Jean Stafford’s life, certainly her writing life, ...

Nomee Photography Share The more you know about Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, the richer you’ll find Sarah Ruhl’s poem-and-postal two-person drama “Dear ...

The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson was ...

That’s the takeaway from Sarah Ruhl’s “Dear Elizabeth,” a look at the decades-long relationship between the 20th century poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell that proved the only true ...

You’re lucky to be out of it.” On having eulogized his dear friend, the American poet Robert Lowell, who had called Seamus “the greatest Irish poet since Yeats,” from the pulpit of St ...

West High School alum Camille Dungy being honored with the 2024 Paul Engle Prize for literary excellence at Coralville Public ...

It’s possible to have an intense, deeply loving friendship with another person that exists entirely outside of one’s core romantic relationship. There even are circumstances wherein that relationship ...

Reading her sentences—with all the clarity of their bracing, direct, brutal simplicity—unlocked something in my mind, and all ...

In April 1970, Robert Lowell moved into All Souls College ... It included ‘magnificent poetry’, as Elizabeth Bishop told him, with ‘marvels of image and expression’. These dazzling, transfixing, ...

Probably no sonnet has ever meant so much to so many people as the one by Emma Lazarus that adorns the Statue of Liberty in ...

‘If there’s an afterlife,’ Robert Lowell wrote in 1975 (within two years of finding ... and the splurge of his later poetry in the 1970s marked the beginning of an especially unstable period for his ...