as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

By Sarah Bahr When Randall Park was first approached about playing an F.B.I. agent in Netflix’s new murder mystery series, “The Residence,” his first thought was: Another one? “I just didn ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

BLOOD FOR A STRANGER—Randall Jarrell—Harcourt, Brace ($2). Modernist poetry constitutes, in its entirety, a piecemeal bible of human guilt. In some of the bible’s sections—T. S.

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

On June 14, 2024, at Cape Cod’s National Seashore near Provincetown, Massachusetts, the nation’s twenty-fourth Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, unveiled the inaugural installation of her signature project, ...

Trilling was channelling the poet and critic Randall Jarrell, who, for years, had urged readers to turn away from Frost’s sentimental poems and consult instead the writer’s darker, spikier ...