Struggling as a single mother in 1967 to raise a son on scant funds while teaching 10 college courses a year, Helen Vendler realized that “the only way I could make my life easier was to give up ...

A couple of years ago, I tried to assign a profile of the great poetry critic Helen Vendler, who died last week, at 90. The profile didn’t work out, because Vendler wouldn’t agree to more than a ...

A humanities education should focus on language, literature, and the arts, not on history and philosophy, said the Harvard University professor Helen Vendler, who delivered the annual Jefferson ...

When the world feels brittle, reading a poem can become a radical act. Lately I've been carrying around two new books: Mark Vernon's "Awake: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst, ...

NEW YORK – Author-visual artist Faith Ringgold, poetry critic Helen Hennessy Vendler and photographer Susan Unterberg will be honored this spring at the American Academy of Arts and Letters ' annual ...

Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor of English at Harvard University. Her many books include *Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery *(Princeton) ...

In an otherwise perceptive review of two books (“A Few Lasting Words,” Books, Dec. 27), Micah Mattix goes too far in contending that Helen Vendler’s final collection, “Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays,” ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Author-visual artist Faith ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Author-visual artist Faith Ringgold, poetry critic Helen Hennessy Vendler and photographer Susan Unterberg will be honored this spring at the American Academy of Arts and Letters ‘ ...