Editor’s Note: The Post and Courier asked S.C. Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth, a Charleston resident, to curate a special issue of Charleston Scene devoted to “poetry in the time of crisis.” She has ...

Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) “Next time ...

I'm going to think I'm being clever here and ask you a question similar to one you asked poet W.D. Snodgrass when you interviewed him for The American Poetry review in 1986, when you said you looked ...

“Poetry,” said William Wordsworth, “has never brought in enough to buy shoestrings.” Neither has Poetry (circ. 5,000). In all its 43 years as a bellwether of U.S. belles-lettres, while printing such ...

One of the features of 20th century literary criticism was the battle to reshape the canon of great works. Not content with what they saw as the outmoded Victorian valuations of literature, Modernists ...

ANOTHER TIME—W. H. Auden—Random House ($2). AUTUMN JOURNAL — Louis MacNeice —Random House ($1.50). English poets have seldom left England —the Christian world’s poetical home base—except on scholarly ...

Poet Dan Chiasson started working on his book “Bicentennial” after the death of his father, who left when Chiasson was 7 months old. While the two never really knew each other, that event prompted ...

Poetry is a constant for Alice Walker. Her literary career, which spans over four decades, has been dominated by her novel The Color Purple,often at the expense of a robust body of work and literary ...

Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Sun Bear (Copper Canyon, 2014). Why Poetry, a book of prose about poetry, is forthcoming from Ecco/Harper Collins in 2017: ...

Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Sun Bear (Copper Canyon, 2014). Why Poetry, a book of prose about poetry, is forthcoming from Ecco/Harper Collins in 2017: ...

When I am blessed with a little more leisure time than usual, I like to spend some of it with poetry. This summer I am thoroughly enjoying God Particles, by Thomas Lux, who teaches poetry at the ...