Thanks for the reading recommendations, everyone. In case you missed it, I am starting an occasional section of this post called (tentatively) “A Reader Recommends.” From yesterday: “If you’ve read a ...

Some people (academics perhaps) might think it rather sentimental to describe poems as ‘friends’, yet when poetry sustains your emotional life you know it’s true. The Poetry Exchange is a project and ...

Many of us fondly remember Shel Silverstein as the voice of our childhoods. We were lulled by the amiable content of collections like Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic and The Giving Tree.

Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...

Columbus, Ohio : Follett, Foster, & Co. 1860. pp. 162. THE TWO Friends are Messrs. John J. Piatt and W. D. Howells. The readers of the “Atlantic” have already had a taste of the quality of both, and, ...