If one is to believe Jethro Tull helmsman Ian Anderson, Christmas is “an aspirin for the soul” with a “measured bit” of “cold-turkey celebration of the birth and life of Christ.” ...

A winter ode to rest, stillness, and the joy of staying in bed ...

Charles Simic, a former poet laureate of the United States, Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur genius and professor, died this week at the age of 84. His poems could read like brilliant, urgent ...

When asked by the poet and critic Mark Ford for The Paris Review who the major poets of his era were, and for his thoughts on the state of contemporary poetry, Charles Simic refused to take the bait.

Charles Simic, the renowned Serbian-American poet whose work combined a melancholy Old-World sensibility with a sensual and witty sense of modern life, died Monday at an assisted living facility in ...