Jules Laforgue (1860–87) was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on August 16, the second son of Charles and Pauline Lacolley Laforgue. The poet’s father was a native of Tarbes, France; Jules’s mother was ...
e. e. Cummings (1894-1962) was an American poet and, like Robert Frost, one of the most-read American poets of the 20th century. He also worked as a painter, essayist and playwright (his most popular ...
Eight of Marianne Moore’s major poems were published in The Nation in the 1940s and ’50s, including “The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing,” “In Distrust of Merits” and “A Carriage From Sweden By signing up ...