For someone classically educated — and a cryptographer, to boot — Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) ought to have gotten right the count of ancient meters, the patterns of long and short syllables that form ...

Whatever you think about the poetry of Walt Whitman (1819–1892), indisputably he does go on. As our poetry editor has noted before, it’s hard to choose a Whitman poem for the Sun’s Poem of the Day, ...

December, this month of yearly summings-up, is a good time to reflect on the human impulse to — well, to sum things up. Every day this December, someone somewhere will feel compelled to publish a ...

While it has been argued that attempts to render classical meters in English are probably doomed, the little sapphic stanza begs to differ. That is, it knows perfectly well that as an ancient Greek ...

Today’s lively graduation-week Poem of the Day, by our poetry editor, Joseph Bottum (b. 1959), author most recently of the poetry collection “Spending the Winter,” forms the third movement of a ...

“The Snow Man” appeared in Poetry magazine in 1921 and then in the 1923 “Harmonium,” the first book of poetry from Wallace Stevens (1879–1955). The book was not a success, and Stevens made sure with ...