A couple of years ago, I tried to assign a profile of the great poetry critic Helen Vendler, who died last week, at 90. The profile didn’t work out, because Vendler wouldn’t agree to more than a ...

Lately I've been carrying around two new books: Mark Vernon's "Awake: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst, ...

In her 2004 Jefferson Lecture, Helen Vendler declared that “the arts are true to the way we are and were, to the way we actually live and have lived -- as singular persons swept by drives and ...

I’m just a regular reader, you say. I read for pleasure. Why should I read the commentaries of critic Helen Vendler on the “epigrammatic, terse, abrupt, surprising, unsettling, flirtatious, savage, ...

Interviews with poets often remind us just what unpoetical creatures poets are. These conversations the record of craft talks held by Pearl London at the New School fascinate but consternate.

NEW YORK – Author-visual artist Faith Ringgold, poetry critic Helen Hennessy Vendler and photographer Susan Unterberg will be honored this spring at the American Academy of Arts and Letters ' annual ...

Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor of English at Harvard University. Her many books include *Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery *(Princeton) ...

Devoted to all aspects of the poetry and life of American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, The Wallace Stevens Journal has been publishing scholarly articles, poems, book reviews, news, and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Author-visual artist Faith Ringgold, poetry critic Helen Hennessy Vendler and photographer Susan Unterberg will be honored this spring at the American Academy of Arts and Letters ‘ ...