Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Memory

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Sex

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The Virtual Book Channel

EXCLUSIVE CLIP: Olivia Gatwood Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet IV”

By The Virtual Book Channel  March 11, 2022
The Hub

Who will buy the skinny house where Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Steig, and Margaret Mead lived?

By Jessie Gaynor  September 17, 2021
American History

A Radical Education: How Greenwich Village Transformed Eleanor Roosevelt

By Jan Jarboe Russell  March 30, 2021
Literary Biographies

Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By Vivian Gornick  March 17, 2021
The Hub

Remember the weird Edna St. Vincent Millay burn in a Lois Lowry book?

By Jessie Gaynor  February 22, 2021
Poets

Defiant and Unsinkable:
The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By Olivia Gatwood  May 19, 2020
The Hub

When Edna St. Vincent Millay’s whole book burned up in a hotel fire, she rewrote it from memory

By Emily Temple  May 2, 2019
Oddities

Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

By Nick Ripatrazone  April 2, 2019
Audiobook

5 Great Audiobooks for Spring

By James Tate Hill  March 28, 2019
Feature

47 of Your Favorite Writers on Their Favorite Poems

By Emily Temple  April 2, 2018
Excerpts

The Child-Poet Genius of Brooklyn

By Ann Hulbert  January 9, 2018
Did you know?

10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

By Emily Temple  October 4, 2017
Personal Essay

Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

By Jill Bialosky  August 17, 2017
Poets

The Most Anthologized Poems of the Last 25 Years

By Emily Temple  July 24, 2017
Where to Go

5 Writing Retreats To Attend This Summer

By Emily Temple  May 2, 2017
Profile

Sharon Olds, America’s Brave Poet of the Body

By John Freeman  March 8, 2017
Deep Dive

Everything I Know About Sex I Learned From Edna St. Vincent Millay

By April Smith  February 14, 2017
Feature

An Incomplete Guide to Proper Literary Name-Dropping

By Emily Temple  December 9, 2016
Essay

A Brief History of New York Values

By David Reid  March 22, 2016
Roundtable

The High School English Teacher Who Changed My Life

By Nick Ripatrazone  March 8, 2016
Art

The Spinster Hall of Fame

By Literary Hub  April 24, 2015
Essay

At the Biggest Writers Conference in the World

By Michele Filgate  April 17, 2015
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