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The article focuses on the author's personal connection to nature and storytelling within their family's cultural traditions, highlighting the importance of spending time in nature and connecting with it even in urban environments to combat loneliness and isolation.

The article reports that Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Louise Glock, one of U.S.'s most celebrated poets, for writing "that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal. It mentions She will give her Nobel lecture in the U.S. because of coronavirus travel restrictions, said Mats Maim, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize.

The article presents an obituary for poet Philip Levine.

The article presents an obituary for poet Philip Levine.

An obituary for American poet and playwright David Budbill is presented.

The article discusses the Emily Dickinson Archive, an online archive aimed at compiling all of poet Emily Dickinson's manuscripts on a single web site. Topics addressed include disputes between Harvard University and Amherst College over ownership of Dickinson's manuscripts, and disagreement over which manuscripts qualify as poems.

An obituary for American poet C.D. Wright is presented.

An obituary for American critic, artist, and poet John Perreault is presented.

The article highlights the work of writer Frank Messina, the self-proclaimed Mets Poet for the New York Mets baseball team. As the Mets faded in Major League Baseball's National League standings in September 2007, Messina's works grew darker and sadder. He even composed a work entitled "Victory's Door," about what it's like to see victory disappear.

An obituary for American author, poet and musicologist Samuel Charters is presented.

An obituary for American poet and publisher Allan Kornblum is presented.

Corrections to articles in previous issues are presented including the use of the U.S. public transit in 2008, refilling of the Jerome Park Reservoir in New York and an obituary for American poet Ned O'Gorman.

An obituary for American poet, art critic and painter Rene Richard is presented.

An obituary for American poet, painter and architect Madeline Arakawa Gins, is presented.

An obituary for American poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is presented.

An obituary for American poet and actor Taylor Mead is presented.

The article offers information on the opening of two restaurants and a casino area buy he franchise inspired by the tribute of Jimmy Buffett to Key West, Florida on May 24, 2013 and the Anguilla LitFest featuring American poet Nikki Giovanni from May 23-26, 2013.

An obituary for American poet and critic Daniel Hoffman is presented.

The article explores the life of poet Jesus Melendez in East Harlem, New York, one of the founders of the Nuyorican poetry movement, who will be soon a pauper because of unemployment.

IT'S probably safe to assume that Edgar Allan Poe does not rest quietly in the Baltimore grave that claimed him, at 40, in 1849. In the works that made him famous -- poems like ''The Raven'' and ''Annabel Lee,'' stories like ''The Fall of the House of Usher'' and ''Ligeia'' -- death is never quite the end: something lives on, not happily. Poe died nearly half a century before the invention of cinema, but the movies knew a kindred spirit when they saw one, and began almost immediately to stir his ashes and rattle his crumbling bones. D. W. Griffith made a short called ''Edgar Allan Poe'' in 1909, in which the writer composes ''The Raven'' while his young wife lies on her deathbed, and five years later that great filmmaker directed a feature, ''The Avenging Conscience,'' that is largely based on ''The Tell-Tale Heart.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reed Whittemore, a former poet laureate of the United States whose work's calm, unruffled surface belied deep subversion below, died on Friday in Kensington, Md. He was 92. His family confirmed the death. A longtime resident of Washington, Mr. Whittemore was emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland, where he had taught from 1968 to 1984. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

American poets rarely become public figures, and those who do -- Allen Ginsberg,Robert Frost -- usually pay a price for it. Sometimes that price is measured in a temporary decline in their literary reputation (other poets find fame hard to forgive), but more often it's a simple matter of becoming papered over with expectations. The more the public looks at a poet, the harder she becomes to see. So it would be good to remember that while Adrienne Rich, who died on Tuesday at 82, was indeed an inspiring cultural force, she was at bottom a writer of poems. And the defiant political stands for which she became famous are entirely consistent with that identity and its long American heritage. (John Greenleaf Whittier was inveighing against slavery in his poems at considerable personal risk right before the Civil War.) But for Ms. Rich, as for any real poet, the question is always: How do we read her work not as social history, but as poetry? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The most public honor an American poet can receive is to be named poet laureate -- officially Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. The library describes the poet laureate as ''the nation's official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans,'' which conveys the potential excitement of the position even if it makes the job sound more dangerous than it likely is. The character of the office, which includes a stipend of $35,000 a year, depends on the character of the poet who holds it. Some, like Robert Pinsky, have been barnstormers. The newly named poet laureate, W. S. Merwin, will surely take a more meditative approach. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The prominent American poet Ai, whose work -- known for its raw power, jagged edges and unflinching examination of violence and despair -- stood as a damning indictment of American society, died on March 20 in Stillwater, Okla. She was 62 and lived in Stillwater. The cause was pneumonia, a complication of previously undiagnosed cancer, said Carol Moder, head of the English department at Oklahoma State University, where Ai had taught since 1999. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sharon Olds, an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Paris Review, will give the Royal and Shirley Durst Distinguished Lecture on Monday at Purchase College. Ms. Olds, who was New York's state poet from 1998 to 2000, is a chancellor at the Academy of American Poets and a teacher at New York University. She is working on her 10th volume of poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Somewhere between Pollock and Pop, new art developed an allergy to the word spiritual unless it was attached to ethnicity. It was O.K. to make altars in galleries if you were Mexican-American -- in fact, you were sort of required to -- but if you were plain old American, no. Yet on the fringes, where the most together thinking tends to take place, there was resistance to this bias. In the late 1960s the American poet Ishmael Reed coined the term Neo-HooDoo to describe an aesthetic that was devotional without being dogmatically religious, ritual-related without having prescribed forms, and rooted both outside and inside the Western mainstream. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RoseAnne Spradlin's newest work, ''Blue Liz,'' shown on Thursday night at the Kitchen, finds its spark in Andy Warhol's 1963 painting ''Blue Liz as Cleopatra'' and a statement about it by the American poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum: ''Warhol takes Liz and he dyes her blue and understanding that Liz is on the verge of becoming garbage he's going to rescue her.'' Ms. Spradlin's premise, which tries to tie in the 1960s sensibility of Pop Art with the current state of contemporary America, poses a tenuous thread in ''Blue Liz.'' It begins with a preshow in front of the theater. Five women wearing jeans and silver-foil tunics gather on 19th Street and walk in regimented lines. Despite their silver Cleopatra headpieces and green eye shadow, they resemble life-size Hershey's Kisses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gwendolyn Brooks and Theodore Roethke are among the 14 influential 20th-century American poets whose recordings have been added to Britain's free online poetry archive, the BBC reported. A total of 61 recordings are being added to the archive as part of a collaboration between the Poetry Archive and the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. The project, which also includes Robert Pinsky, Ted Kooser, Philip Levine and Yusef Komunyakaa, will consist of more than 100 American poets reading their own work. The archive was started in 2005 by Andrew Motion, the British poet laureate, and the recording producer Richard Carrington. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on the great American poet Robert Frost. As a poet, Frost cannot be categorized in any category because he wrote poetry on varied subjects without any kind of specialization. However, he has never been duly recognized by the American academy. In fact, he is the only poet who is universally acknowledged as a master of his field, but he never requires a periodic reputation. Information on a new book on Frost, "Notebooks of Robert Frost," is presented as well.

Focuses on the film "Sylvia," starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, about the American poet Sylvia Path. Complaints about the film's invasion of family privacy; Comments of Frieda Hughes, Plath's daughter; Background on Plath's marriage to British poet Ted Hughes; Debate over the reasons for Plath's suicide; Reference to Hughes' publication of "Birthday Letters," poems describing their courtship and marriage; The film's approach to Plath's marriage and suicide.

Profiles American poet Ruth Stone, winner of the National Book Award. Stone's uncompromising style when writing about passion and loss; Excerpts from poems in her collection 'In the Next Galaxy'; Comments of Stone; Biographical and career details; Impact of her husband's suicide on Stone and her family; Life style.

Highlights the life and works of American author and poet Mark Twain. Posthumous attention given to the author; Influence on the American literature and consciousness; Controversy encountered by some of the books published; Involvement of Twain in the national and international life of his time.

Focuses on the life and work of late United States poet James Merrill. Alfred A. Knopf's publication of his 'Collected Poems'; Biographical details, including his privileged childhood as the son of stockbroker Charles Merrill, founder of Merrill Lynch; His pride in being a poet; The conferences which take place across the United States to celebrate his work.

Profiles poet C. K. Williams, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry as of October 2000. Biographical information; His move to Paris, France in the mid-1950s; His views on the expatriate experience; Highlights of his books, including 'Repair' and 'Flesh and Blood.'

Focuses on the 1999 National Poetry Slam in Chicago, Illinois. Conduct of the participants and spectators; Effects of the popularity of poetry on the Poetry Slam; Criticism of slam poetry; History of the creation of the National Poetry Slam by Marc Smith; How the competition is judged; Comments from poets.

Focuses on United States poets and poetry. Willingness of publishers to publish poetry, as of 1999; Absence of a major celebrity poet who has recognition outside US literary circles; Factors in the proliferation of literary poetry; Comments from editors at US publishers; Speculation about the impact of technology on the popularity of poetry.

Focuses on the 17th annual Taos Poetry Circus, held in Taos, New Mexico, in June 1998. Declaration of American Indian writer Sherman Alexie of Spokane, Washington, as poetry champion of the world; Features of the event and participants; Comments from executive director Anne MacNaughton.

Editorial. Comments on the competition to succeed novelist and playwright Norman Rosten as poet laureate of Brooklyn in New York City. 19th century poet Walt Whitman's comments on Brooklyn.

Discloses about the revelations contained in the set of notebooks kept by poet Walt Whitman discovered by the auction house Sotheby's after fifty years as of February 1995. Information on Whitman's character and the Civil War.

Reports on the status of poets in the United States. Poetry in motion pictures; Publication of poetry books; Review of the motion picture `Il Postino'; American poets laureate.

Focuses on Robert Pinsky, poet laureate of the United States. Comments from Pinsky; How Pinsky feels about poetry.

Reports on the arguments of Peter J. Stanlis, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Rockford College in Illinois, that conversation was the critical element in Robert Frost's poetry, and was the basis for his theory of language. What Stanlis contended about Frost; Background information on Frost; Details on Frost's works.