Of all genres of writing, poetry has to be the most subjective, the most deeply personal. Certainly many memoirs reveal heartfelt confessions, but that's for the writer; it's rarely as personal for ...

The last poem Seamus Heaney completed appears towards the end of this magisterial book. It was commissioned by the National Gallery to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The final draft of the poem was ...

TIME was when a poet with so clearly American a quality as Robert Frost would have been hailed as a Yankee Vergil, Theocritus, Burns, or what you will. Now it may be said that an American is striking ...

These poems by Mainers appeared in “Notes from an Open Book,” a monthly e-newsletter of the Maine Humanities Council. SMELT SHACKS By Joseph Coleman The frost-heaved road lined with cord on cord of ...

TO acknowledge the role of translations and translators in connecting the people of different nations, International Translation Day is celebrated on Sept 30 every year. But this year, the day was ...