Philip Kelley has spent more than 50 years editing the correspondence – 11,601 letters – of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. But don't call him a scholar... more »
The pianist and composer Béla Bartók found his sound – tonal, atonal, unorthodox – in the folk music of Hungary, Romania, and nearby nations... more »
Poetry has always been about myth, and the boom in poetry about celebrities can be seen as ridiculous, or deeply rooted, or both. Consider “Love Letter to Flavor Flav”... more »