Like “A Winter Blue-Jay,” which appeared as the Poem of the Day on January 9, “Summer Night, Riverside” chronicles a remembered love affair. Its undulant lines, unrhymed and unmetered, suggest the ...

like the wonder of summer’s long hazy days and warm breezy nights. These summer poems will help you celebrate the day, and get you excited for the warm months ahead. Happy summer!

Lisa Jarnot’s “Suddenly, Last Summer” develops ... So, too, the human voice of the poem begins lost — ready to worship but bereft of a God. In the “blue blue night” of despair ...

Written in response to the “Red Summer,” a period of lynchings and violence against blacks that swept the USA in 1919, McKay’s poem urges ... the dreary ominous nights, for we never knew ...

Summer nights seem to last forever. The air thick with heat, ice cream stores packed with customers and a desire to be present with others a little bit longer. There may be a tendency to look ...