Poem of the Day: ‘Elegy to Miss Emily Kay’ Today’s poem offers an 1828 example of a form in which key words were replaced by a kind of phonetic code. A direct connection to 21st-century texting ...

Lipstick Elegy By Paul Tran I climb down to the beach facing the Pacific. Torrents of rain shirr the sand. On the other side, my grandmother sleeps soundlessly in her bed. Her áo dài of the ...

When they fished her out, the eastbound roared through necklaces of skyline, or so I remember, or so I say. By rust-ravaged fronts, I sensed a hustler's craft, device of handshake and for-the-best ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Mary Jo Bang is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently a translation of Dante's "Inferno" (2012), "The Bride of E" (2009) and "Elegy" (2007), which won the National Book ...

This poem was apparently written in the Tower of London by the imprisoned Chidiock Tichborne, a young Catholic conspirator against Queen Elizabeth, the night before he was executed. Whether this ...

Her next collection of poetry, Thrall, will be published this fall. Here, she shares several drafts of “Elegy,” a poem from that collection.