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I was teaching Melville's story, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," which concludes with the revelation that Bartleby used to be...

Odysseus on the road Our June issue will be about travel. It seems appropriate for that time when school ends, and travel and vacations us...

It is National Poetry Month 2015 in America. The Academy of American Poets has many special features on its website for this month. One...

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was an extremely methodical  and downright slow writer. I was surprised to read that she only published 101 ...

The poet Elizabeth Bishop was born 100 years ago on Feb. 8. Her father died months later, and her mother was institutionalized early in her ...