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Elizabeth Bishop

Do Poets Peak Young? Don't Believe It

David Galenson | Posted 04.30.2013 | Arts
Read More: Creativity, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop, William Butler Yeats, Marianne Moore, Philip Larkin, Stanley Kunitz, Experimental, Poetry, Robert Lowell, Arts News
David Galenson

Do poets peak early? Apparent evidence that they do is provided by the striking list of poets who made major contributions in spite of dying young. But they are only part of the discipline.

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The Poetry Of Travel

Peter Mandel | Posted 01.28.2013 | Travel
Read More: Literature, Rhyme, Planets, Chicago, Armadillos, Poets, Rudyard Kipling, Mars, Guidebooks, Brazil, Poetry, London, Stars, Travelogues, Venus, Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, Sonnets, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Bishop, Trains, Travel Writing, India, River Thames, Meter, Carl Sandburg, England's Lake District, New England, Travel News
Peter Mandel

Poetry. Poetry and travel. Do they go together? Are they secret lovers -- or at least good pals?

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The Sugar Zone Is Bittersweet

Joan Gelfand | Posted 01.29.2012 | Books
Read More: Marsh Hawk Press, Brazil, Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Mackey, Environmentalism, Travel, New Books, Poetry, Redroom, Books News
Joan Gelfand

It is difficult to resist the temptation to compare, if not the style of poems, then simply the location of Mary Mackey's The Sugar Zone to Elizabeth Bishop's series, Questions of Travel, written during her fifteen years in Brazil.

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Authors, Bestsellers, Anthony Bourdain, The Passage, The Overton Window, Books, Elizabeth Bishop, Book Reviews, Glenn Beck, Justin Cronin, Books News

Did you miss the weekend's big book reviews? Catch up with some of the highlights below! "Denial: A Memoir of Terror," Jessica Stern The New York ...

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National Poetry Month: Breeding Hyperlinks Out of the Dead Land

Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Jonathan Galassi, Patricia Smith, National Poetry Month, Jenny Holzer, D.A. Powell, Elizabeth Bishop, Linh Dinh, Mahmoud Darwish, Ed Sanders, Rae Armantrout, Sonia Sanchez, Bob Perlman, Amber Tamblyn, Books News
Travis Nichols

It's National Poetry Month, so media outlets all across the country are shining a spotlight on the art form they normally ignore, mangle, or treat with derision. Hooray!

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A Villanelle to Oxford Skullduggery

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, Oxford, Elizabeth Bishop, Villanelle, The Poetic Life, Healthy Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

With apologies to every proper Villanelle ever written.

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