Anything Frieda Hughes writes is of interest. As the child of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, she immediately drops us into the fateful family life of two of the 20th Century’s most influential poets.

One of my favorite poets is William Carlos Williams, the imagist poet who believed a poem could be like a painting — words that provoke a picture and initiate thought. Here’s his most famous ...

Generally, I write columns in the third person, but that stance would be false in writing about Naomi Shihab Nye, who has been a friend for 40 years, or long before she became “famous” — an ...