James McWilliams's biography details the life and work of poet Frank Stanford. Stanford, born in Mississippi and raised in Tennessee and Arkansas, died by suicide at age 29. His epic poem "The ...
Poets we lost recently (clockwise from top left): Jayanta Mahapatra, Keki Daruwalla, Gieve Patel, Saleem Peeradina. Yet, apart from Nissim Ezekiel, whose authorised biography I published in 2000 ...
Mark Doty has won a long list of awards, including the National Book Award for Poetry. In addition he was the first American awarded Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Doty, the author of more ...
Amy Clampitt, widely eulogized as a “late bloomer,” was 63 years old before she was recognized as a world-class poet. Rising to meteoric heights in the poetry world is by itself daunting, but when one ...
During an Interview with Hilary Holladay, the Sun asked why her subject had to be Adrienne Rich and not another poet or another woman writer. Her answer: “I wanted to write about someone who at an ...
Most biographies of literary figures are a wonderful substitute for actually having to read the work. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...
The small, sickly African girl who arrived in Boston on a seafaring vessel in 1761 had already been stripped of her family and her home. She missed her father, who suffered after having his young ...
Houston’s Phillis Wheatley High School celebrates its centennial in four years. As with many institutions with long histories, Wheatley High School became its own entity independent of its namesake.
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