The Magic of Millay

The Magic of Millay

A year ago, I posted a short piece “The Ghost of Edna St. Vincent Millay” in honor of Millay’s 130th birthday. In it I described the extraordinary influence she and her poetry had on my young self. What I didn’t mention was the influence she has continued...
The Ghost of Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Ghost of Edna St. Vincent Millay

One hundred and thirty years ago today Edna St. Vincent Millay – a remarkable, sometimes scandalous, and always brilliant poet, was born in Rockland, Maine.  Twenty-five years later she moved to Greenwich Village, where she and my grandfather Floyd Dell – a...
Two Poets Who Speak For Me

Two Poets Who Speak For Me

I can hardly express how relieved I am today now that the inauguration of the 46th American President is behind us, nor how my spirit is beginning to lift, despite the horrors of covid-19 still ahead. I am choosing to believe, I need to believe, that President Biden...

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