Dear Readers: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover week. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the ...

April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

Editor's note: As winter chill still lingers through early spring, longing for warm days has sprung up everywhere. Before the flowers are in full blossom, here is a collection of ancient Chinese poems ...

Note: This column was originally published in 2022. Dear Readers: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new ...

Spring Festival Couplet (春联), also known as Door Couplet, symbolizes the Chinese great expectation for the future. It is one of Spring Festival Mascots and a special literary form of Chinese ...

Some of the best poets of spring are masters of the minor key. So it's no surprise that the famously dour Philip Larkin wrote two of the finest... Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also ...

Begun in 1996 to encourage the appreciation of poetry, National Poetry Month features a roster of poetry events and readings held all over the country at schools, libraries and bookstores. Its founder ...

It’s easy to think of Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) as a caricature of her own extremes: morbid and (as other of her poems we have run in the Sun suggest) maybe a little hysterical, certainly strange ...