Readers familiar with the poet Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) might know “Sunday Morning,” an early poem that rejects biblical faith in favor of “divinity within,” or “High-Toned Old Christian Woman,” ...

Paul Mariani is an American poet and a professor at Boston College, who was born in New York City in 1940. He grew up on Long Island, the eldest of seven children. His published work includes ...

The poetry of Paul Mariani. Paul Mariani is a haunted man. Perhaps we are all haunted, but what is impressive about Mariani is his willingness to admit it, his openness about the ghosts in his life.

A conference-goer’s report. In February, a wide range of spiritual and literary types—writers, readers, editors, and thinkers largely consisting of Roman Catholics but not entirely—gathered at USC's ...

The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani, Simon and Schuster, 483 pages, $30. It is unquestionably artificial that the American publishing business declares separate months of ...

While Netflix or your podcast feed may be the way you consume spooky tales during the Halloween season, poetry has been making readers squirm out of their skin for centuries. But what if I told you ...

The heaven of an old home: 1879-1897 -- Harvard: 1897-1900 -- Starting out: 1900-1903 -- Two versions of the American sublime: 1903-1906 -- Wing{grave}ed victory: 1907-1913 -- An explosion in a ...