An obituary for the poet and novelist. Robert Pinsky offers poems by E. A. Robinson, Marianne Moore, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Czeslaw Milosz. Columnist Mary Schmich on the consolation of poetry. Poets, playwrights and linguists reflect on the inadequacy of the language heard just after the attack. The New York Times ' critics reflect on the power of art in a time of grief.
Artists respond .
New and Selected Poems reviewed by Dwight Garner. Reviewed by Jason Sommer. Noah Adams interviews the new U.S. Poet Laureate. Two new biographies reviewed by X. J. Kennedy. The Decline of San Francisco as a Literary Region.