Friday is the longest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical summer. It’s ...

In a world flooded with cheap facsimiles of human art, will we still be able to rely on our own faculties for creation, or ...

The poem, of course, is “Casey at the Bat,” but it seemed unlikely that any sports failure caused the gloomy skies above the ...

But that's precisely when we need poetry the most. It's like that old Buddhist saying ... step into your life" (“Instructions for a Sun-Washed Sunday (After a Week of Rain)” by Irene ...

This is my favorite 110-year-old poem. There’s not much I can say about it that hasn ... The cherry blossoms bloom. The sun comes out. The world is green and dying, and I’m running out of time.

When a Sun-Times reporter called ... Gwendolyn Brooks, a 32-year-old housewife and part-time secretary, has won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for “Annie Allen,” a ballad of Black Chicago ...

This is an old idea in poetry. “Recuerdo” can be classified ... The stakes aren’t always life and death, but the rising sun often casts a shadow of sorrow on a romantic scene.

“Blue Hills of Massachusetts” was written by retired schoolteacher Katherine Mullen of Barre, who was 94 years old when Gov. Edward King signed the law that made her poem the official one for ...

As the season of love approaches, many express their affection through chocolates, teddy bears or love sonnets and poems. One poet ... the arch of my back, / The sun of my smile, / The ride ...

We must find the sun. We continue our list of inspiring ... Lucretia Maria Davidson wrote this poem when she was only 15 years old. Written in the early 1800s, “A Song” criticizes our ...

“Old Orchard’s Palace” is Robert Gibbons’s second collection of poems written about his current ... “October’s heavy shadow outweighed sun’s / light by several tons,” we hear ...

To revitalize our generation’s lost passion for love, we need to bring back an old-school practice of showing affection to our beloveds: writing love letters and poems. The first and only love ...