Poet and translator David Ferry at his office in Brookline, Mass., in 2012. Mr. Ferry's son, the photojournalist Stephen Ferry, captured the portrait. (Stephen Ferry) By Harrison Smith.

A poet whose translations of Horace and Virgil are revered, David Ferry won the National Book Award in 2012 for “Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations,” which includes “Lake Water,” and ...

David J. Reedy III, 79 of Southampton, NJ (previously Easton, PA; originally Scranton, PA), passed peacefully at home on May 15, 2025 serenaded by his favorite poet-lyricist, Bob Dylan. He was the … ...

Poet J. Ivy was a teenager struggling with his parents divorce when he met Paula Argue, the high school teacher who opened a whole new world to him.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu remembers a friend, Baltimore poet David Franks. Franks blurred the line between his private life and his public art: He did outrageous things and had a sense of humor ...

LATE ROMANCE: Anthony Hecht — A Poet’s Life, by David Yezzi. To write about the poet Anthony Hecht in 2024 is to invite the question of why, in 2024, ...

Smith College will host a reading by retired Smith professors James Sacré and David Ball at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in the Poetry Center, Wright Hall. This reading, which is free and open to the ...

David Bottoms was a poet grounded in the realities of the Georgia landscape and its people. He was Georgia's poet laureate from 2000 to 2012. Bottoms died March 10. By Phil Kloer.