Technically, summer doesn't end until September 22 (a Friday this year), but TBH the second half of August always kind of feels like things are winding down (shakes a fist at school for hardwiring the ...
Today’s lively graduation-week Poem of the Day, by our poetry editor, Joseph Bottum (b. 1959), author most recently of the poetry collection “Spending the Winter,” forms the third movement of a ...
The amount of poetry majors that I went to school with could all fit into a mid-sized van together, comfortably. Needless to say, it wasn't a hugely popular major — even at a creative writing school.