Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Critic Miller (The Brontë Myth) considers the life of English poet John Keats (1795–1821) via nine of his poems in this detailed and original study. Melding biography, close reading, and personal ...

Part of the reason A.E. Housman (1859–1936) holds a high and immovable place for those who read and write formal poetry is that — as the Sun pointed out in March, when the Poem of the Day column ...

Each word carries a story, but not all words are imbued with emotional or cultural significance. One such word is “epitaph.” The word epitaph is greater than a mere word; it is a tribute, a memory, ...

THE late former Daily News assistant editor, Maxwell Sibanda, has been canonised through a new poetry collection by his younger brother, released to mark the fifth anniversary of his death later this ...

to fill the sky with wreckage. We clutch our skin, reach for hope from our ankles, We close our eyes, pray for water, pray for answers, We keep our fear in a silent place — we run. There was a flash ...

and bullies at gas stations cracking their knuckles. And now, now that every trigger finger is itchy, you’re going out like an exorcised Liberace. Hectic, comedic, toxic, alone, a flaming meringue on ...

Source: 'Photo taken by Zoe Weil' Last week, I had the opportunity to experience the power of my epitaph. How is that possible given that I’m not dead yet? It happened because I deliberately wrote my ...