In any literary era, there’s only so much room to shine. Some poets will rise, beaming their light down on everyone else. Others will appear — to those of us who read them at all, a century or more ...

We started the Poem of the Day feature in The New York Sun this past February to comment on — and set before readers again — classic works of poetry, in the conviction that poetry can still serve as a ...

An Egg muffin and hollandaise sauce breakfast in the inn. Outside sound of a snow removal truck at work in the falling snow Loud sighs of a heavy wind blowing across the frozen lake water. College ...

I've been thinking lately about what is only able to be said through poetry. How a poem can transform a moment into a feeling and make a memory come to life. Poetry has an incantatory effect; I read a ...