Drew Calvert is a writer living in Southern California. “My friends are my estate,” Emily Dickinson wrote to Samuel Bowles in 1859, in a letter whose chief purpose was to thank him for a pamphlet.

Emily Dickinson, a reclusive yet prolific poet, penned nearly 1,800 works, though few were published during her lifetime. Her ...

Her poetry is beautiful, isn’t it? Original, evocative, vivid. The rhymes are subtle. The lines flow softly from one image to ...

History’s greatest artists and thinkers reward reinterpretation. A Shakespeare or a Curie can feel different in different decades — can reveal something fresh about their time, and also ours. In a ...

I’m Ann Fisher-Wirth, the Poet Laureate for Mississippi 2025-2029, and I want to tell you about my new podcast series called “The Favorite Poem Project,” available through the Mississippi Arts ...