Poetry Is Different
To the Editor: Mark Strand's essay "Slow Down for Poetry" has its points: poetry must be read differently from other forms in print; poetry addresses -- is even borne on -- those human perceptions most...
View ArticleMark Strand Wins Bollingen Prize
Mark Strand, a former poet laureate of the United States, has won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. The $10,000 prize, established at the Yale Library in 1949, is awarded every two years to one or more...
View ArticleA Little Funky Human Warmth
DARK HARBOR A Poem. By Mark Strand. 51 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $19. THE BOOK OF LIGHT By Lucille Clifton. 76 pp. Port Townsend, Wash: Copper Canyon Press. Cloth, $21. Paper, $11. AUTOBIOGRAPHIES...
View ArticleTeacher Turned Playwright Is Among the Winners of 22 Pulitzer Prizes
An Atlanta kindergarten teacher, a biographer of Charles A. Lindbergh and a writer who spent 20 years researching the geologic history of North America were awarded Pulitzer Prizes yesterday. The...
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A Nagging Call to Tidy Up an Unfinished Life
Mary-Louise Parker gives a bold, stylized performance in tune with the dreamy spirit of Sarah Ruhl’s beguiling new comedy....
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Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present
Poets mingled and an important collection of English-language poetry was unveiled at a three-day conference in Atlanta....
View ArticleA Quartet in Motion, With ‘Howl’ and Other Poetry
Both words and music suffer in Lee Hyla’s “Howl,” a string quartet written in 1993 to accompany Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 poem of that name....
View ArticleNational Book Foundation Names Poetry Finalists
Louise Glück and Fanny Howe are among the poets on the long list of nominees for poetry for the 2014 National Book Awards....
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Mark Strand, 80, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate
To critics who said Mr. Strand’s poems were too dark he replied, “I find them evenly lit.”...
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