Today Twitter  (naturally) brought some very good news: one of my poems, "Words," which the brilliant poet and critic Dawn Lun...

A page from the George  North manuscript that starts the poem about Jack Cade. The last stanza lists terms for dogs, which Sha...

A panoramic view of Caltagirone A few months ago I received an unexpected but wonderful invitation to participate in the G37 Summit of ...

"Poetry makes nothing happen," or so writes  W. H. Auden in his famous elegy, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," though he wen...

Today's poem is by a poet I've never featured before, but this poem, and this poet's work, have intrigued me, not least becau...

I described this quarter's movement thus far--it's been only one week and had I followed the suggested teaching schedule I would ...

Last month, as my advanced undergraduate fiction students and I were reading ZZ Packer 's stories, I drew a little box around a word...