One of the legends of 20th century poetry wrote sparingly — but her work still resonates. The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss ...

Elizabeth Bishop has become, in recent years, the flagship of mid-twentieth-century American poets, leaving her more overtly confessional contemporaries—Sexton, Plath, and Lowell, who was a close ...

Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Saskia Hamilton, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-53236-9 To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Bishop (1911–1979), FSG is releasing ...

Maybe it's fitting that a new biography of the brilliant and troubled poet Elizabeth Bishop is something of a beautiful mess. From a childhood marked by her father's death and her mentally ill mother ...

In the years since Elizabeth Bishop’s death in 1979, her work has garnered far more attention and acclaim than it ever did during her life, vaulting her to be widely recognized as one of the 20th ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Imagine "Love Letters" if Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner were literary giants of the 20th century rather than spoiled, star-crossed figments of A.R. Gurney’s imagination. But wait, you ...

Move aside, Ernest Hemingway. There’s another literary legend in town. And she fished, too. Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet who was the nation’s poet laureate ...

Elizabeth Bishop lived in this Key West home from 1938 to 1946. The iconic American poet Elizabeth Bishop called Key West home for a decade of her life. She often described the natural beauty of the ...

NEW YORK — "Dear Mr. Lowell, I don't know how to get in touch with you now that Randall is away but I should think this would reach you through Harcourt Brace. I just wanted to say…." Three years ago, ...