LOWELL — Lowell native poet Matt Miller, who released his third collection of poetry, The Wounded and the Water, last month, got an unconventional start in writing: he attended Yale University on a ...

Robert Lowell died in 1977 at the age of 60. He was a towering figure — physically big — but most significantly, dominant in the world of letters. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Lowell was ...

In a scene that draws forever the line between the poet and the square, Hamlet, prince and poet, converses with the busy bureaucrat Polonius: Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of ...

WINCHENDON — The Beals Memorial Library announced area poet Maya Maria, of Lowell, has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 Beals Prize for Poetry. Now in its fifth year, the competition drew the ...

This is a rollercoaster of a literary biography. If you enjoy the sensation of high speed, sudden drops and vaults to giddy heights, this is the book to read about the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet ...

Kay Redfield Jamison says she began falling in love with the poet Robert Lowell in 1963 as a 17-year-old senior in high school, not long after her first debilitating episode of bipolar disorder. "My ...

THE common lament on our campuses is the dearth of “major poets,” and the critics are scuttling to find one. If they cannot find him, surely they can invent him: study someone until he turns out to be ...

Is there a link between madness and creativity? In her intriguing new book, Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison searches for answers by examining the chaotic life of one of ...

Books Inc. Berkeley presents a tribute reading honoring the memory of poet Lowell A. Levant, who rose to prominence in Berkeley in the 1960s as a member of the Artists, Musicians, Poets, and ...