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 ...

Last year at roughly this time, as astute Sun readers will recall, we featured “In the Bleak Midwinter,” by Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), to herald the coming of Christmas. As we noted with that ...

Poet Kwame Alexander's latest community poem is inspired by kids' definitions of love, touching on everything from ephemeral connections and puppy kisses to the circle of life and Kendrick Lamar.

One Day love song for the newly divorced. By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley. One day, you will awake from your covering and that heart of yours will be totally mended, and there will be no more burning ...

Theodore Roethke “may have been the maddest poet of his generation,” as Peter Davison wrote in 1965’s “Madness in the New Poetry.”But, Davison adds, ...

Suzanne Somers’ husband, Alan Hamel, gave the “Three’s Company” actress a handwritten letter one day before her death at age 76 on Sunday. Hamel, 87, gifted the poem to Somers as part of ...

A poem for Barack Obama's presidential inauguration. U.S. World; ... Each day we go about our business, ... What if the mightiest word is love? Love beyond marital, filial, ...

love & the memory of it. by Jay Hopler. spook not at the shook world w/ all its viruses & murder hornets instead that summer evening call to mind when you drove alone over iowa the light in the ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail.

Alan Hamel wrote a poem to wife Suzanne Somers that she read the night before she “died peacefully in her sleep” Sunday morning. She would have been 77 on Monday.