The great Hartford poet Wallace Stevens wrote the poem “Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers” in 1942. Fred Biesel painted an intensely colored still life with flowers in 1926. The poem and the painting ...

Devoted to all aspects of the poetry and life of American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, The Wallace Stevens Journal has been publishing scholarly articles, poems, book reviews, news, and ...

Ever heard of Wallace Stevens? If you love poetry or American literature, of course you have. Me, I remember that he was a conservative Republican and an insurance company executive, and I remember ...

Devoted to all aspects of the poetry and life of American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, The Wallace Stevens Journal has been publishing scholarly articles, poems, book reviews, news, and ...

In 1923 Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) published “Harmonium,” his first book of poetry. And now, a hundred years later, it’s worth returning to that volume, trying to understand what the poet was seeking ...

It was a willfulness, an exertion, which verged At once on fluency, that I should appear, as I did Today, out of light-blue air, in a dark-blue suit. In the time that I have been gone, I never outgrew ...

Claudia Rankine, author of five collections of poetry, shared her work and the message she conveys through her poetry with a full audience in the Dodd Center Konover Auditorium at the University of ...

Murray Bartlett, Laurie Santos, and more guests join Elisa New to read Wallace Stevens. Modernist poet Wallace Stevens balanced his long career as an insurance executive with a thrilling life of the ...