Last March, The New York Sun offered “Windy Nights” as its Poem of the Day, and perhaps it’s time to revisit Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), this time for a winter poem. His collection, “A Child’s ...

Shania Twain is a proud Canadian, sharing stories of her childhood in From This Moment On. That includes one hilarious and “beautifully well-written” poem that would get her and her siblings through ...

SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died. And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. COOPER: (Reading) ...

“Those Winter Sundays” is a poem that captures in 14 lines the enormous struggle against the cold, write Patrick B. Whalen.(STEVEN KRIEMADIS / Getty Images/iStockphoto) Winter in Detroit is a ...

In the one hundred fifty-four sonnets of William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the seasons, invoked as metaphors for lovers’ joys and sorrows, turn up again and again, like pages in a calendar. “Shall I ...

Francisco X. Alarcbon celebrates a San Francisco winter in Iguanas in the Snow: And Other Winter Poems/ Iguanas en la nieve: y otros poemas de invierno. The title poem describes a family delighted ...

No matter what may pass. Kim Stelling is a local poet who lives in Elgin. She has two grown children — one of whom is also a writer. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every ...

Lyn Hejinian’s poem has the sonnet’s traditional 14 lines and even features the sonnet’s coupletlike resolution, but the length of its lines exceeds tradition, nearly reaching to the very edges of ...