Here in April, celebrated annually as National Poetry Month, I’ve been wondering: Is there a truly great poem about the Mississippi River? The question first came to mind last December when a copy of ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Jane Hirshfield, the award-winning poet, translator and essayist, has lofty ideas about poetry’s role in human lives, which she sets out in her new book about poetry, “Ten Windows: How Great Poems ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

“Luminous Great Mass” is from_ Peter O’Leary’s collection, “Watchfulness” (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001). His most recent book of poetry is “Depth Theology” (Georgia, 2006). His critical study, “Gnostic ...

How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee? With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, a candid, unaffected writer who examined love, loss and rural American life, died Saturday at the age of 89. Hall said he saw no reason to spend life writing ...

As we continue the Sun’s week-long festival, celebrating Rhina Espaillat’s poetry in this year of her ninetieth birthday, we shift gears today from the sonnet to a form that loosens its hold on rhyme ...