You may know some poems by Rhina Espaillat. Born on January 20, 1932, she had her 90th birthday this year celebrated by several of the better poetry publications. Back in its 1990s heyday, Prairie ...

With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than he can understand. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the ...

Sun Yung Shin dedicates her revelatory fourth collection, “The Wet Hex,” to those “cast away,” using a verb to remind readers that abandonment is an action imbued with intention and responsibility. In ...

Koch passed away this summer at 77 after a battle with leukemia, having recently produced some of the strongest work of his career: 2000's New Addresses (an NBA finalist). These two volumes-one of new ...