He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

I make no apology for dedicating one of my Nature Diaries to big, black beetles. They have been a source of fascination since ...

For certain, we in the Berkshires are proud of our gardens, and there is a delight in the air when spring weather invites the ...

Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such negotiations. As a mere reader unacquainted with this superb poet, I cannot say what ...

Students at Edinburgh College of Art have also created an animated version of the poem, which is available to view on ...

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb.