• For the new year: “Geography III,” by Elizabeth Bishop. “Poems in here are full of questions that could be good for the beginning of a new year,” Buckley says. He says the book poses questions about ...

Lili Noll was a regular at Innisfree’s open mic nights while attending the University of Colorado Boulder, meeting other young poets who formed a large collective they dubbed “Writer’s Block.” So when ...

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) is reported to have come to loathe “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” Given time and enough repeat performances, artists often learn to despise their greatest hits. Of all ...

THE Irish poet W B Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin but lived more than half his life outside Ireland. His studies at art school in Dublin no doubt influenced the vividness of his descriptive ...

In his 1892 poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats fantasizes about a life lived in solitude on an island in Lough Gill in Ireland, where the poet spent his summers as a child. Earlier this year, as a ...

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