I just ran across a poem called The Emperor of Ice-Cream (it’s the author’s hyphen in “Ice-Cream,” not mine). If it hadn’t been explained to me I wouldn’t have a clue what it was about. Once someone ...

The generation of Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) is slowly coming out of copyright, which makes more of the second generation of modernist writers available online. For a winter day here in February, the ...

Murray Bartlett, Laurie Santos, and more guests join Elisa New to read Wallace Stevens. Modernist poet Wallace Stevens balanced his long career as an insurance executive with a thrilling life of the ...

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) worked most of his professional life as an insurance executive, yet is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, winning a Pulitzer Prize and two National ...

On the outside, Wallace Stevens was the picture of success: a Harvard graduate, a successful lawyer and married to a woman he loved — with whom he had one daughter. But it was Stevens' roiling ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky shares a poem by Wallace Stevens, perfect for a hot Friday in August. Summer is supposed to be a time of hedonism. This summer, for example, is supposed to mark ...