To write about Robert Hass is to face describing an abundantly rich life. Besides being a once-syndicated columnist who provided a weekly dose of excellent poetry by others (with accessible commentary ...

The poet W.H. Auden wrote in his poem “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” that “poetry makes nothing happen.” But it does, one could argue to the contrary, when it moves a person to a greater awareness of the ...

Hazel Belk wrote her first poem, “Inner Peace,” when she was 30, then she secreted it away in a drawer. “It was very personal,” Belk says, “so I just tucked it away, thinking I might share it later. I ...