WINCHENDON — The Beals Memorial Library announced area poet Maya Maria, of Lowell, has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 Beals Prize for Poetry. Now in its fifth year, the competition drew ...

R obert Lowell was notably unlucky in Ian Hamilton’s major biography written on him in 1983. Hamilton’s biography, while impressively comprehensive, presented a damagingly wrong-headed and skewed ...

Lowell the poet has not only the chameleon’s ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard’s faculty of independently focusing each eye.

Lowell is the poet par excellence of the particular. Too prosy for some tastes, he insists that poems must incorporate the prosiness of life; poetry must be as important as prose. He ignores the ...

Yet the achievement of this group of poets has always been easy to misunderstand. Almost immediately, the kind of self-exposure practiced by Lowell and Berryman, in particular, was labeled ...

Maggie Doherty on the poet and author of “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” who inspired Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Lou Reed.

While Sexton was known for his Alaska poems of place, he also did a substantial amount of writing about his home and youth in Lowell.