THERE is a plague of rabbits in contemporary English poetry. It is a recent development, and, unless something is done to check it, it threatens to upset the proper balance of wild life in that ...

On a recent afternoon, there was a rabbit in my backyard, crouched on the matted gray-brown patch of last year’s grass. It was just sitting still, not doing anything, its face twitching in the way of ...

Poet and novelist Brad Leithauser was born in 1953 in Detroit, Mich. He is the author of five books of poetry, “Hundreds of Fireflies” (1982); “Cats of the Temple” (1986); “The Mail from Anywhere” ...