John Updike was most frequently celebrated for his masterful novels — including Rabbit Run (1960) and Couples (1968) — and expressive short stories. The writer, who died in 2009 at age 76, also kept a ...

Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has ...

Hear Elise Paschen read Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers." Read the full text -- and hear poet Stephen Dunn read his poem "The Sacred." In the 14th century, Petrarch wrote about love ...

Billy Collins, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, one CD, 1.5 hrs., $20 ISBN 978-0-385-36639-7 Two-term Poet Laureate Collins offers up this compilation of poems from the chapbooks he ...

Claudia Emerson, a professor at the University of Mary Washington, discuses winning the Pulitzer for her book "Late Wife," a compilation of poems about loves lost, marriage and divorce. For Claudia ...

Selected by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, illus. by Marjorie Priceman. Little, Brown, $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-316-04051-8 Andrews and Hamilton follow Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, ...

It is easy to subscribe narratives to each memory – and each feeling – so that our sense of self fits neatly into a box. But poets can be good at defying the confines of boxes. In her third poetry ...