From the 1970s through the 2000s, Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler were regularly mentioned together as America’s leading ...

According to the Roadside Poetry Web site [at www.roadsidepoetry.org ... poetry was how I sorted out all the stuff of life. Now, I still write when I’m trying to make sense of things, but ...

Here’s to friends. It only takes one to make life more complete. A picture: One of my favorite pictures is of Sandy when she was three or four. I didn’t meet her for another dozen years ...