Earlier this month, the New Yorker magazine published its centennial issue, and in its pages readers will discover something extraordinary: a previously unknown Robert Frost poem. Frost’s biographer, Jay Parini, wrote an essay about the poem, saying it “was found in a retired educator’s home library by a family friend, a book dealer, following the educator’s death.”

“Nothing New,” a previously unpublished poem by Robert Frost, was originally inscribed inside a copy of Frost’s second collection of poetry, “North of Boston.” The book was found in a retired educator’s home library by a family friend, following the educator’s death. “It’s a good poem, short and aphoristic, from a period when Frost, writing at the height of his powers, had a special affection for poems of this kind: brief, rueful, tight, focussed,” Jay Parini writes. At the link in our bio, Parini surveys the poem, which has been published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.