The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ by Alexander Clapp “There is a reason why Mafia bosses tend to work in ‘waste management,’” ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

A fond memory of the poet.

Somebody recently opened the book, and there it was written out in perfect Robert Frostian ... I thought, oh, wow, this is actually a good Robert Frost poem. LIMBONG: All right.

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through with pain.

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894 ... like something that might come out of the tube when you pull the lever marked POETRY. Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career ...