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 ...

Technically, summer doesn't end until September 22 (a Friday this year), but TBH the second half of August always kind ... and that's by reading poems. I know I've been talking about "summer ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

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 ...

evoking a sense of purity and mystique in the summer's night. Full text available here or listen to a recording of the poem. 3. Wie freu' ich mich der Sommerwonne! by August Heinrich Hoffmann von ...

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 ...

Written in response to the “Red Summer,” a period of lynchings and violence against blacks that swept the USA in 1919, McKay’s poem urges readers to be brave and fight back in the face of death.

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,” ...