Even if the Bay Area weather is cold and rainy, three slim books serve as charming harbingers of the coming season. Thirty short poems quietly generate the promise of ...

Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also be a season of ambivalence. After all, for something to be made new and fresh, it first has to have gotten old and worn. Perhaps this is why some ...

Spring: still several weeks away, but how impatiently a Marylander awaits it. Spring: the foretaste of big books, in the publishers’ spring catalogs; the season of book-and-author sessions for readers ...

An old saying has it that a picture is worth a thousand words. Really, though, a picture is worth just a few words, if they are the right words. Poets have the knack. They can use few words to create ...

Some of the best poets of spring are masters of the minor key. So it's no surprise that the famously dour Philip Larkin wrote two of the finest... Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also ...