Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the poem "Nothing New" for The New Yorker, and he joins us now. Welcome, Jay. JAY PARINI: Andrew, thank you for having me on.

Robert Frost, who died in 1963, was an American poet. A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, he was awarded a United States Congressional Gold Medal in 1960. “It makes sense ...