The former poet laureate gathers new work and selections from her 20-year career in Startlement. During your laureateship, how did you balance bringing poetry into public spaces with the privacy ...

Why don’t worms have balls? Because they can’t dance. As witticisms go, this one is awfully mediocre. So how did it wind up inspiring “Worms,” an entertainingly idiosyncratic song on Comfort of ...

Will Sheff makes kindness an aesthetic on this album of gentle, idiosyncratic songs about dog adoption, celebrities’ emergency tracheotomies and finding transcendence in nature. No score yet, be the ...