While James Merrill (1926-95) was anything but a confessional writer in the usual sense, like all great writers he wrote best about what he knew best, and that was himself. While he was not, in ...

James Merrill (l) with his longtime partner David Jackson in Greece in 1973. (Judith Moffett/Wikimedia Commons) James Merrill was one of the most naturally gifted American poets of the 20th century.

A WHOLE WORLD Letters From James Merrill Edited by Langdon Hammer and Stephen Yenser When he was 25 and traveling abroad, the poet James Merrill (1926-95) learned that his mother had destroyed letters ...

Apr. 13—After the poet James Merrill died, from AIDS, at the young age of 68, a small bequest in his will left the remarkable building he owned in the heart of Stonington Borough to the Stonington ...

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art is an annual publication that features the very best in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art. We were founded in 1977 and continue to be one of the few ...