Nature1 month agoWritingRhapsodies in green: the poetry of plant biologyExploring poems on plant biology and commemorating physicist Patrick Blackett in Nature's archive. [ more ]
The New York Review of Books7 months agoWritingA Genius Ill-Served | April BernardElizabeth Bishop's poems and prose were published this year to celebrate her centenary. Her work is now recognized as profound and overwhelming, despite being initially regarded as minor. [ more ]
Boston.com8 months agoBooksA scholar discovers stories and poems possibly written by Louisa May Alcott under a pseudonymLouisa May Alcott may have written about 20 stories and poems under pseudonyms for local newspapers in Massachusetts. One of the pseudonyms she used was E. H. Gould, and she also wrote under her own name and the pseudonym Flora Fairfield. [ more ]