Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash….

A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the ….

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But ….

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon..

Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to….

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture..