US Poet Laureate

Poems and Essays:

A Writing Assignment from Rita Dove

Interview with Richard Wilbur

Moonlight Dries No Mittens: Carl Sandburg Reconsidered

Myra Sklarew on William Stafford

On the Incoming Tide

Poetry and Happiness

Reasons for Poetry

Robert Hayden on the Art of Saying What Cannot Be Said

Some Notes on Form

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

Stanley Kunitz: Naked in His Prose

The Correspondence of Louise Bogan

The Day of the Gwendolyn

The Happy Genius of the Household

The Poet and the Mule

Three Winter Poems

Unfurl the Flags of April

Variety in Poetry