By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

The hemline index correlates the strength of the economy with women’s skirt lengths—minis in a bull market, midis in bear. In ...

From memory, Frost recites “The Gift Outright”, a far better poem. His white hair flutters like a flag in the rising wind. His voice rings strong and clear, staking a claim: “The land was ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...