Somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, as the old poem goes, but on Sunday that somewhere seemed not to be in the District, where it was implacably overcast all the day long ...

Boston activist Sara Ting penned “The Sun Poem” in 1985 in a campaign to recognize and promote racial and ethnic harmony through words. Sara, who is Chinese American, has empowered people all across ...

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 Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Waiting for her wandering friends. She sure has stood the test. Don McAnally is a resident of Jackson.

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 Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

In Springfield, the sun stays up 15 hours and 15 minutes from June 18 to June 21. The days immediately before and after those differ by only a few additional seconds.