The Drift Record

When I was little, my family had a card game called Authors. The goal was to collect as many entire sets of "books" (each card...

Robert Francis 1901-1987   Contemplating the small hummingbirds in our garden this early September, I offer up another small poem w...

Farm Boy: 1940 by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration We all know that when August ends, summer ends, no matter what the...

John Hollander - Imagine studying poetry with this man.... Last Saturday, when I heard that the poet John Hollander had died , I pu...

Holland Cotter , art critic at The New York Times, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, writes about his love of recited poetry in ...