Somewhere in the middle decades of the 20th century, advanced poetic taste decided that sentimentalism in general, and the sentimentalism of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) in particular, was ...

In yesterday’s Poem of the Day, James Weldon Johnson’s speaker meditates on the fraught sense of identity between father and son, the father recognizing himself in his child, but wishing, at least on ...

When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year, she chose Rita Dove’s “The First Book” to be the entry for January 1. The poem describes what it’s like ...

Finally, there are signs of spring. So we’re beginning this roundup of children’s picture books with two by St. Paulite Sarah Nelson that celebrate parks and frogs. What better topics to remind us of ...

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) ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Bob Odenkirk has known he wanted to immortalize the playful poems he created with his kids since they were first scribbled down years ago. The Emmy-nominated actor always assumed “Zilot ...