An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word, vertically. A limerick is a funny five-line poem with a rhyme scheme AABBA. A haiku has three lines, which in total ...

To be untangled from these mother’s bones. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... the Elizabethan sonneteer Sir Philip Sidney and the poet and composer Thomas Campion. Millay, an assiduous reader and enthusiastic quoter ...