“The Snow Man” appeared in Poetry magazine in 1921 and then in the 1923 “Harmonium,” the first book of poetry from Wallace Stevens (1879–1955). The book was not a success, and Stevens made sure with ...

I've been thinking lately about what is only able to be said through poetry. How a poem can transform a moment into a feeling and make a memory come to life. Poetry has an incantatory effect; I read a ...

An Egg muffin and hollandaise sauce breakfast in the inn. Outside sound of a snow removal truck at work in the falling snow Loud sighs of a heavy wind blowing across the frozen lake water. College ...