Christmas falls on one of the darkest nights of the year, but now our neck of the woods will begin to move into the light of longer days. It always fascinated me as a kid to think kids halfway around ...

“This morning, as she went about humming God moves in a mysterious way, Belinda wondered what to do first,” the English novelist Barbara Pym writes of a character. Her 1950 novel, “Some Tame Gazelle,” ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph Bottum of Dakota State University, with the help of a North Carolina poet, Sally ...

Overall, the definition of light verse is poetry designed to be entertaining and amusing. The poems tend to be brief and ...

Sparrow creates one tone poem in eighteen movements on The Light to describe feelings and moods. Derived from the blues, his improvised form of communication leaves impressions for his audience to ...

Many of the poems written by Midlander Larry Levy seek clarity and truth, offering epiphanies on life. Levy’s fourth book of poetry, “Blessed Arrangement,” published Nov. 1, is about paying attention ...