Robert Lowell

As the year draws to a close and winter begins, it seems like the right time to consider the work of some elder poets who thrived or are presently thriving in their later years. Read More

Following the most ferocious scandal the poetry world has experienced for years, during which favourite Derek Walcott withdrew from the race for the Oxford poetry professorship, he is next year to be made professor of poetry after all: but at the University of Essex, rather than Oxford. Read More

It began with pinheads of rain on the windscreen which might have forecast what we call "a soft day" – a day of gentle, refreshing rain. Read More

Many were hunched over graph paper, calculators, textbooks, or novels. Read More

Even if you are unfamiliar with the poet David Rosenberg and his curiously slack biblical "translations," the ideological premises of his new collection, "A Literary Bible," will be immediately clear. Read More

The Ricordanze of Giovanni Chellini da San Miniato are terse little comments, on the whole. Read More

All but a few members of the Springfield High School Hall of Fame are not in the least bit famous in Springfield. Read More

Continuing its tradition of collaborating with other Chicago cultural institutions to offer yearlong programming around a central theme, the Art Institute of Chicago announces its 2009-2010 season as "500 Ways of Looking at Modern." Read More

When I met Annie she was a little flower child, she was the ex-fashion model. Read More

Many of us know Chana Bloch as the translator of Yehuda Amichai, Israel's most illustrious poet. Read More