Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s book of poems arises from her work as a biographer in the archive of Charmian Kittredge London, the wife of Jack London and also a writer herself, defined by her own life in the ...

This splendid biography of poet Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) performs three important functions: It acts as a memorial, an introduction and a prod. First, memorial: The Poem of a Life tells us about ...

ARTery critics Ed Siegel, Lloyd Schwartz, Carol Iaciofano, John Winters and Maureen Dezell share their favorite books of the year. "Self and Soul" by Mark Edmundson. (Courtesy Harvard University Press ...

Ian Hamilton, the respected British critic, editor, poet and biographer whose unauthorized book on J.D. Salinger was blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court because it quoted from the novelist’s unpublished ...

"Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast" by Megan Marshall. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2017) Megan Marshall’s biography of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), a Pulitzer Prize winner born and buried in ...

MR. HONE’S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider Yeats to have been, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “the greatest poet of our time.” ...

Award-winning poet and translator Erín Moure looks for the future of poetry in its queer and female past by approaching the work of American poets Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld ...

Although a complicated, erring human being is far more interesting than a squeaky-clean legend, finding a balance between candor and gossip is a biographer's first responsibility -- to the subject, to ...

Wasi Shah is a popular Urdu poet, playwright, and an anchor with a wide fan following. He has recently brought out an anthology of his verse titled ‘Kulliyat-e-Wasi Shah’ comprising three of his ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Why and how did Hayim Nahman Bialik become Israel’s national poet? Avner Holtzman, a professor of Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University, ...