For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and decline, beauty and loss. In earlier traditions, from Shakespeare to Keats, ...

May Sarton was a novelist and an avid keeper of journals, but she considered herself a poet above all else. Novels and journals, she said in 1983, are concerned with growth over time, but “the poem is ...

It's been a wild and crazy week, on top of a score of wild and crazy weeks. Let's take a moment to reflect on the season, take a breath and just … be. I took a walk on Thursday and the day brought me ...