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Eavan Boland and W.B. Yeats – a connection that is “part scrutiny and all...
A sense of displacement “There is a mystery and poignance to the way poets find one another. The process can never be mutual. It is always the younger poet in a later generation who does the finding....
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Farewell to Stanford’s “How I Write”– and hello to Hilton’s new book!
Teamwork: Charlie Junkerman and Hilton Obenzinger It’s a cliché that all good things come to an end, but stoicism was little consolation for the 40 or 50 of us who came to bid farewell to the “How I...
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Robert Pinsky: “The arts are not ornamental. They are at the center of human...
Stanford’s handsome civic poet (Photo: Jared C. Benedict) Robert Pinsky, former U.S. poet laureate, has returned to Stanford as a Mohr Visiting Poet for a few months. It’s a familiar habitat for him:...
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“A Chicano on fire”: U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera returns home to...
Herrera offering cookies at the Poetry Foundation (Photo: Don Share) Last month, U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera visited Stanford. We were still only two months into a new presidency. It was...
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Think we have it bad? Eavan Boland’s poem about Ireland’s Great Famine
Eavan Boland: one of Ireland’s leading poets Update: Eavan Boland died of a stroke this morning at her home in Dublin, on April 27. She was 75. Ireland’s terrible period of starvation and disease from...
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Irish poet Eavan Boland is dead. From her NYRB essay on literature, religion,...
One of Ireland’s leading poets, Eavan Boland, died this morning of a stroke, at her home in Dublin. She was 75. I knew her, and yet was at a loss about what to say, so instead I reposted a her poem...
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