Elizabeth Bishop’s Key West house purchased to be preserved
Key West has long been a haven for America’s favorite writers. Tennessee Williams, Anne Beattie, Joy Williams, and Judy Blume have all spent time there. Hemingway, of course, got the… Read more »
Poems for all those people, sitting at desks in New York office buildings
If you dialed the phone number (212) 628-0400 between the years 1969 and 1971, you’d have been greeted with the recorded voice of William S. Burroughs, or John Cage, or… Read more »
The villanelle makes a comeback
A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. Five tercets are followed by a quatrain. This highly structured and rigid form is only about a… Read more »
Wordsmiths, obviously, should know how to sting other writers. But some have proven especially good at it. Herewith, the ten historic barbs we think the most notable and the story… 1 / Read more »