Who was d.a. levy, and why does he command such fascination, especially in Cleveland, 50 years after his untimely demise? He was born Darryl Allen Levy in 1942 to Carolyn Levy and Joseph Levy, a shoe ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...

As resolutely canonical as they seem to us now, the “Holy Sonnets” of John Donne (1572–1631) flicker with some uncertainty in the imaginary museum hall of English literature. We think we know them.

Flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge sods. Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun. That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it. In his native Ireland, he’s known as “Famous Seamus,” ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

For nearly 15 years, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has written a poem a day. When she got home Friday, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death heavy on her mind, she hadn’t penned one yet. She began to read news ...

The best of Robert Frost, like the best of most writers, is small in quantity, narrow in scope and seldom the object of popular acclaim. There are a dozen or fifteen of his lyrics which register a ...