Today’s lively graduation-week Poem of the Day, by our poetry editor ... even as the summer days extend later and later into the night. Fittingly, “Summer” provides the lighter, wittier interval ...

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like the wonder of summer’s long hazy days and warm breezy nights. These summer poems will help you celebrate the day, and get you excited for the warm months ahead. Happy summer!

Lisa Jarnot’s “Suddenly, Last Summer” develops ... So, too, the human voice of the poem begins lost — ready to worship but bereft of a God. In the “blue blue night” of despair ...

After all, we associate summer with pleasure ... they look like ideas” or “Though after nine nights must come ten.” Sandra Lim’s poems often seem influenced by Louise Glück’s signature ...

Her latest book, Twas The Night - The Art and History of the ... where many believe Moore wrote the poem during a summer visit with his cousins. She told Todd Moe that in 2012, she published ...

God” and denotes a song whose singer ruefully greets the new day after a night of passion. The three stanzas track the arrival of morning. We see the first light: It’s a modern poem with ...