Today’s Poem of the Day marks the one-year anniversary of this weekday feature at the revived New York Sun. As of today, we’ve brought our readers two hundred sixty poems, voices from the past and the ...

John Milton (1608–1674) was Cromwell’s Secretary for Foreign Tongues (chief translator for England, in other words), despite the fact that he was totally blind by 1652. He produced Paradise Lost, the ...

Sparrow creates one tone poem in eighteen movements on The Light to describe feelings and moods. Derived from the blues, his improvised form of communication leaves impressions for his audience to ...

perhaps we do still. The light outside was, as they say, autumnal, as lavish and unforgiving as god. The wailer didn’t stop, and eventually, because no one gets in or out of Kroger fast, we tracked ...