In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

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Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

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