ABSTRACT This essay examines the phenomenon of rare or unique poems found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscript collections, positioning them within the familial, collegial, or coterie ...

Long before Kay Ryan was a successful poet, let alone the Poet Laureate of the United States, she practiced her craft by writing short poems about odd things she read in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph Bottum of Dakota State University, with the help of a North Carolina poet, Sally ...

The University of California Press continues its monumental program of restoring Duncan’s complete works to prominence with this volume, which follows his prose work The H.D. Book and Lisa Jarnot’s ...

The poet Lola Ridge (1873-1941) was an early Modernist, radical in her politics, and an ardent feminist. In the clumsy ways of literary fashion, Ridge was prominent and anthologized, then more or less ...