sees Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley explore the myth of the doomed poet. By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous poets, the book builds up a picture of what it ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" — marking a full year of weekly columns — is Lola Haskins, who lives in ...

The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...