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 ...

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

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as ... Plunkett relates how, in the summer of 1945, seven years after Frost’s wife, Elinor, died and he had begun an emotionally charged ...

Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco ... He dropped out after two years due to health concerns, returning ...

Robert E. Lee. William Prescott Frost Jr. was a Harvard graduate and newspaper editor, and his wife, Isabelle, was a teacher who read her children authors including Poe, Keats and Emerson.