As the tourism industry rebounds from the pandemic, more of us will be hitting the road this summer, drawn to new destinations. But trips can bring regret, too. Was it really worth it to visit a ...

A new exhibit at Vassar College highlights the personal papers of the renowned 20th Century poet Elizabeth Bishop – with a fun twist. Lining the halls of Vassar’s stately Thompson Library are tables ...

This short poem grapples with so many themes at once, then finishes by reclaiming the body, desire and memory with a simple statement. By Ama Codjoe and Victoria Chang Elizabeth Bishop was a master at ...

The biopic, with its stubborn fidelity to the contours of real life, seems a poor form with which to honor a poet. Literalism is inimical to poetry, and yet literalism is the biopic’s principal ...

On Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz and Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia ...

Two of America s most revered poets, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, were introduced to each other in New York in 1947. Lowell had just published his second book of poems, Lord Weary s Castle, and ...

For those of you who like your poetry news contentious (and who doesn’t?), the lit-crit catfight over the ’uncollected poems’ of Elizabeth Bishop is a welcome development. In one corner is the ...

The next time you're out and about in Worcester, you may well be following in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz, Elizabeth Bishop or Frank O'Hara. A new project aims to capture the places poets have ...