Hilda Doolittle, known as HD, was a prominent modernist poet of the early 20th century. Her 1914 poem "Oread" is a key example of Imagist poetry, which uses concise, sensory language. The poem is ...

Poetry can be described as a home where language settles down, finds respite and moves out, to return when frayed. Wallace Stevens in his poem “Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty” alludes to ...

I didn’t expect a small-town green ranch house with two parrots jib-jabbering behind closed doors and an offer of beef jerky to take home in a sack. This was a New York City poet, a good one. The New ...

Two adjacent items in a 1943 issue of The Saturday Evening Post highlight the conflict—and joy—inherent in our mythic meal. “Suicide happens because of loss of hope and loss of social connection,” ...