Today is the shortest day of the year, also known as the winter solstice. The solstice marks the start of winter in ...

I had a column titled Poems by Heart. The column drew responses from many readers, which I will publish in due course. (Thank ...

“The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” is a fascinating volume; a poet’s life in full.

Each poem is inspired by a significant – often curious – event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the ...

Sending good morning poems to your better half is one of the best ways to express affection. There's nothing quite like a sweet morning message to set the tone for the day. You can send them as a text ...

For example, I encountered the following examples of poetry and poetic language all in a single day: I heard a wedding toast (in rhyme) on a TV morning show; I found a penny on the ground and ...

All we had was an inscription at the bottom of the placard: “From text dated 1692 found in Old St. Paul’s Church ... is a variation on a prose poem written by Max Ehrman in 1927.

Folks my age tend to waste time and energy pining for the good old days. We put on our rose-colored glasses and recall when life was simpler, when we all got along, when everyday activities were ...

The poem tells the charming story of a father who witnesses St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus, on Christmas Eve. The “jolly old elf” arrives in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer and leaves behind ...

“I wrote this after my last visit to [San Pedro Sula in] Honduras, my family’s homeland—my first time there since the pandemic. We were there without my Tía Gloria and my cousin Ela, whom we lost.