and couldn't find any other mention of these poems. Oliver says she thinks they were missed by other researchers "because people are not necessarily looking in a folder of letters to her niece ...

Today’s lively graduation-week Poem of the Day, by our poetry editor, Joseph Bottum (b. 1959), author most recently of the poetry collection “Spending the Winter,” forms the third movement of a ...

And before he left for the Milton Academy in Massachusetts, then for Harvard, and then for Europe in 1910, he composed a graduation poem for his St. Louis classmates — a set of fourteen stanzas of six ...