US Poets Laureate

Poems and Essays:

“You have a beautiful voice”: snippets of a laureateship

A Small Tribute to Philip Levine

A Writing Assignment from Rita Dove

Academy of American Poets Reception

An Area of Possible Encounter: William Stafford in Washington, DC

Billy Collins Interview

Charles Wright Interview

Conrad Aiken Takes a Desk Job

Consultants Gathering

Donald Hall Amid the Sunflowers

Fitzgerald’s Brief Term

Frost Blows Out the Candles and Makes Headlines

Howard Nemerov

In the Magnificent Region of Courage: An Interview with Louise Glück

Interview with Josephine Jacobsen

Interview with Richard Wilbur

Interview with Ted Kooser

Introduction to U.S. Poets Laureate Issue, Part II

James Dickey: In Touch with Darkness

July in Washington

Karl Shapiro, Poet and Anti-Critic

Leda in Red Sneakers: A Remembrance of Mona Van Duyn

Léonie Adams Inaugurates the Public Reading Series

Moonlight Dries No Mittens: Carl Sandburg Reconsidered

Natasha Trethewey Interview

National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities Act

National Poetry Festival 1962

On Archibald MacLeish

On the Incoming Tide

Orphan of Silence: Charles Simic

Poetry and Happiness

Randall Jarrell in Washington

Reasons for Poetry

Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration

Richard Eberhart, the “Jolly Salesman”

Rita Dove Interview

Robert Hayden on the Art of Saying What Cannot Be Said

Robert Penn Warren’s First Term Office and House

Robert Pinsky Interview

Six Poems by Anthony Hecht

Six Poems by Reed Whittemore

Some Notes on Form

Spender on Political Poetry in the 1930s and Auden’s Poetic Brinksmanship

Stanley Kunitz: Naked in His Prose

The Bird Cage

The Correspondence of Louise Bogan

The Day of the Gwendolyn

The Elephant in the Room: Kay Ryan

The Generous Spirit of American Poetry: An Interview with Joseph Brodsky

The Happy Genius of the Household

The Library and its Laureates: The Examples of Auslander, Williams, Dickey & Kumin

The Poet and the Mule

The Poetry Office: A Photo Essay

The Tenaciousness of Spark Matsunaga

The Uncontrollable Elements: An Interview with Mark Strand

The Writer Who Changed the Future: On Gwendolyn Brooks

Three Anecdotes About Anthony Hecht

Three Winter Poems

Unfurl the Flags of April

Variety in Poetry

W.S. Merwin and Eco-Justice