Things have been abuzz here at VQR for the past couple of days since word got out that we’re publishing “War Thoughts at Home,” a previously unknown Robert Frost poem. We’ve published a dozen previously unknown Frost poems over the years, but that was while he was still alive, shortly after he wrote them, which made them admittedly somewhat less exciting than this latest find. Hillel Italie’s AP story is the source of the buzz, since major papers across the nation picked up the story.

The coverage will culminate on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, when not one but two stories are slated to run. The first is an interview with the finder of the poem, Robert Stilling, and VQR Editor Ted Genoways. The second is a broader piece about VQR, which will attempt to explain how a staff of four produces a well-respected magazine. We particularly look forward to hearing the latter so we can figure out how to do it. We’re all fairly sure we didn’t say anything particularly foolish during our interviews, but that won’t keep us from feeling nervous between now and then.

The release of the remade movie of “All The King’s Men” this weekend makes it useful to note the pair of lengthy essays that we’ve published recently about Robert Penn Warren and his seminal novel. (“Recently” being a relative term for an eighty-year-old magazine.) Harold B. McSween looked back at Warren on the occasion of his centenary in our Summer 1993 issue, while Sanford Pinsker considered the changing face of populism, the 2004 presidential election, and Willie Stark.