Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has published some of the most important voices in U.S. poetry, including Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Amiri Baraka and Adrienne Rich. But last week, the ...
Poet William Carlos Williams wrote a short poem, "This Is Just to Say," in which he apologizes to someone for having eaten the plums in the refrigerator. From that simple beginning, Joyce Sidman of ...