Jeffrey Brown talks with award-winning poet Linda Pastan. Flip through the 30 years worth of poetry in Linda Pastan's collection, "Carnival Evening," and you'll find titles that sound a lot like life ...

Linda Pastan, who lives in Maryland, is a master of the kind of water-clear writing that enables us to see into the depths. This is a poem about migrating birds, but also about how it feels to witness ...

Linda Pastan, 90, whose elegantly simple poems found beauty and, sometimes, pain in the ordinary sights and moments of life, died Jan. 30 at her home in Chevy Chase, Md. Her daughter, novelist Rachel ...

In poet Linda Pastan’s work, her home in Potomac is a stone’s throw from the Garden of Eden. Pastan takes Eve, the first woman of the Bible, as her perennial muse and writes about the pleasures (bread ...

Maryland's former poet laureate plays to her strengths in this restrained and sensitive 11th collection. Readers have long loved Pastan (Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968–1998) for her ...

In her pocket-size compilation “A Dog Runs Through It,” Linda Pastan pays loving tribute to the dogs who have accompanied her life and poetry over the years. It’s an utterly delightful book — from the ...

Reprinted from “The Imperfect Paradise,” by Linda Pastan. Copyright 1988 by Linda Pastan. With permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Co. Ms. Pastan’s most ...

Linda Pastan, who lives in Maryland, is a master of the kind of water-clear writing that enables us to see into the depths. This is a poem about migrating birds, but also about how it feels to witness ...

Born in the Bronx in 1932, Linda Pastan draws on experiences of daily life and of nature to create direct poems in a spare and engaging voice. Family experience--ordinary stories of husband and wife, ...