Here's a poem by John Updike read by NPR's Tom Cole. TOM COLE reporting: (Reading) `August. The sprinkler twirls, the summer wanes, the pavement wears Popsicle stains.' (Soundbite of music ...

But in the portion offered as today’s Poem of the day — “Summer,” the halcyon season in “a sprightlier ... autumn nights and the “winter’s news.” Drawing on august, and Augustan, sources, such as Pope ...

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August goes by so quick ... If you refuse to believe it ends badly, return to 6. At the end of the summer, you wrote bad poetry. Inexplicable, s—ty, broken-down poetry that couldn’t even ...

Although Memorial Day weekend is viewed as an unofficial start to summer, the season properly starts on June 20. But being ...

Those will get me through the winter well enough, but for a few more weeks, I am bingeing on summer fruit — the ... The title of that poem by William Carlos Williams is “This is Just to ...

The title of this poem subverts expectations right away. After all, we associate summer with pleasure: vacations, the beach, sunshine. Each line operates in the declarative. Many lines end with a ...

So we’re stuck with translations that at least have a whiff of the spare particularities of the Chinese verse — translations such as today’s Poem of the Day, “In the Mountains on a Summer Day,” ...