“Why do love / and dying feel the same?” asks poet Diannely Antigua in her pulsing new collection “Good Monster” (Copper Canyon). Antigua, a Dominican American native of Massachusetts who teaches at ...

Michael Longley at the Corrymeela Peace Center in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, in July 2012. (Wikimedia Commons) The death of the poet Michael Longley on Jan. 22, 2025, at the age of 85 did not ...

As the news coverage of record flooding, increasingly destructive hurricanes, polar vortexes, wildfires and other disasters reveal the extent to which we are now living in the early days of ...

Mary Oliver has done it again. She has assembled a collection of poems that is moving, intense and evocative in its engagement of the natural world. Yet this latest book by the Pulitzer Prize- and ...

Spring is finally dispelling the cheerless gray of winter. In a few more weeks, city dwellers will begin the time-honored practice of heading to the countryside in search of pristine nature, ...