In her column “Brutal Monsters,” Cate Burtner ’25 offers commentary on the literature of mental illness. I have always thought the term ‘sad girl poetry’ was condescending. ‘Sad’ feels overly ...

INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES — Edgar Lee Masters—Macmillan ($2). VACHEL LINDSAY—Edgar Lee Masters —Scribner ($3,). When in 1914 the first poems of Spoon River Anthology were published in Reedy’s Mirror, U. S.

Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, spread from “Shadows” (2016) (image courtesy Steidl) Here, selections from Shadows. Read on a bench with a sandwich. Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, spread from ...

Jim Carroll, the legendary Manhattan poet and punk rocker, died of a heart attack on Friday, Sept. 12, at the Jim Carroll, the legendary Manhattan poet and punk rocker, died of a heart attack on ...

Since Aristotle, people have suspected some link between creativity and depression. We understand that poets seem more likely to murder themselves. They call it the Sylvia Plath effect. It is romantic ...

The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...