Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertise...

When Harriet Monroe founded "Poetry" magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door".May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!" For a century, the most important and endurin...