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Byline: PETER MEINKE The sleepy town has become a laid-back destination for tourists and a retirement haven for Americans. The familiar music bounces from the restaurant's stereo, with the lyrics: [...]

Byline: PETER MEINKE At night Chinamen jump on Asia with a thump ... So starts the late Frank O'Hara's playful poem entitled Poem. Its rhythms popped into my head while [...]

Byline: Peter Meinke But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his [...]

Byline: PETER MEINKE Here in Norfolk the leaves of the crape myrtle trees that line our streets are tipped with red, like children's fingers dipped in strawberry jam. It's a [...]

Byline: PETER MEINKE Last November, I was commissioned to write a pair of poems celebrating the birthdays of the two St. Petersburgs - one on our joint celebration (Russia's 300th [...]

Byline: PETER MEINKE Along the beaches sand lies blank as snow on Christmas evening Dying stars fade in the foreign sky While children go to dream of toys beneath the [...]

Byline: PETER MEINKE Could there be a major poet more American than Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)? She was a skeptical independent feminist Puritan, American to her bones, with all the tensions [...]

JAMES DICKEY: The World as a Lie By Henry Hart Picador, $35 Reviewed by PETER MEINKE A biography of poet James Dickey uncovers a man whose life was far less [...]

GERTRUDE AND CLAUDIUS By John Updike Knopf, $23 Reviewed by PETER MEINKE In Gertrude and Claudius, John Updike has managed to do several new things while continuing to write about [...]