"Some people have an idea a day," writes John Ashbery in "And the Stars Were Shining," Judging by his prodigious recent output - Ashbery's "Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems" gathers poems from ...

Of all genres of writing, poetry has to be the most subjective, the most deeply personal. Certainly many memoirs reveal heartfelt confessions, but that's for the writer; it's rarely as personal for ...

These poems by Mainers appeared in “Notes from an Open Book,” a monthly e-newsletter of the Maine Humanities Council. SMELT SHACKS By Joseph Coleman The frost-heaved road lined with cord on cord of ...

In Dr. Fady Joudah’s poem “House of Mercury,” a severe summer storm has blown over Houston. The storm’s destructive winds woke up the narrator’s father, who hears the “snaps and creaks” of the two ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

TIME was when a poet with so clearly American a quality as Robert Frost would have been hailed as a Yankee Vergil, Theocritus, Burns, or what you will. Now it may be said that an American is striking ...