Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

In a poem midway through Mark Jarman’s collection The Heronry, a student on a trip abroad (to France?) makes trouble for herself. She loses her passport, skips class, gets drunk, and gets arrested.

Seamus Heaney died this morning, but his poems continue to be very much alive — and in them, he is first and foremost a poet whose poems you feel in your mouth. Pronouncing the words as he describes a ...

And while “Come See Me in the Good Light” doesn’t escape these qualities, it renders the subject with profound intimacy, ...

University of Dayton English professor emeritus Herbert Martin talks about his life and his new poetry collection The Shape of Regret. English professor emeritus Herbert Martin has “good poems to sell ...

Recently I was driving the Interstate early on a Saturday night, heading to the Big City for a Big Night with my baby. NPR news had finished, and, in my part of the world anyway, just as night follows ...