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 ...
November stands as a quiet bridge between autumn’s golden farewell and winter’s silver silence. It is a month of reflection, ...
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 ...
The Kelly Writers House hosted a poetry reading and discussion event with poet Marcella Durandon Wednesday.
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 ...