Last week, Ian Segal, of the poetry department, exchanged e-mails with Barbara Ras, whose poem "Washing the Elephant" recently appeared in the magazine.Ras's new collection, "The Last Skin," will ...

The Poem: Elephant by Lorna Goodison on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save Lorna Goodison. Published January 3 2020. Jump to comments section Print this page. Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free.

John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1869) was a New England poet and comic wit — of the kind much invited to be an after-dinner speaker. James Thomas Fields remains the model of such figures in that era (and so ...

Elephant in the Dark: Based on a Poem by Rumi Mina Javaherbin, illus. by Eugene Yelchin. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-63670-4 ...