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 ...

Because “a better life” is the immigrant’s most stubborn illusion, I wanted a do-over. Other versions behind (beside) me like so many costumes (countries). That one: the pink-jacketed girl sweeping ...

A Palestinian government children’s TV program aired a poem advocating youth martyrdom and the use of assault rifles, according to a clip of the show posted by an Israeli watchdog group. The Best Home ...

will greet, in a midnight sky’s bright stillness, with peace, goodwill, to him? This poem is part of a liturgical poetry cycle he wrote while serving as poet in residence at Trinity Lower East Side ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they ...

With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than he can understand. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the ...