Beauty Born of Ashes
The story of a lyrical masterpiece that almost wasn’t
A Name Not Writ in Water
Revisiting an immortal 19th-century English poet
At the Corner of Byron and Shelley
Poetry and philhellenism at the Greek bicentennial
Warrior Eros
How an army of homosexual men became one of the most elite fighting forces of the ancient world
Swimming the River of Song
How a young scholar demystified the ancient oral tradition
The Swift Completion
Why letters matter
The Sculptor vs. the Poet
Marble can be toppled, yet words are eternal
Movement and Stillness
Quarantine and sculpture in the First Cemetery of Athens
Five Poems
Getting In, Daylilies, Funeral of a Bumblebee, Song for Jacqueline, and Little Iliad
Remembering Richard Wilbur
Thoughts on the Pulitzer prize–winning poet
