In thinking about Mark Adams, polymath painter, printmaker, naturalist, journal-keeper and cartographer with the National Park Service, a Cat Stevens lyric comes to mind: “Morning has broken ...

Brian Jackson, Mark Adams in tribute to Gil Scott-Heron and Roy Ayers. Arts-Culture. By Shelia Poole, The Atlanta ... Scott-Heron, a musician, poet and author, died in 2011 at age 62.

You might say the same thing about the characters in the poetry Mark Strand is writing today. Here he reads a poem called "In The Afterlife." At 77, this seems like the poet in winter.

Poet Mark Strand, a former poet laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize winner, has died at the age of 80, according to the Academy of American Poets. Strand died in his daughter’s ...