Reading a bedtime story has never cracked the top 200 chart of preferred ways to kill someone. That’s probably because guns, knives, even falling anvils have always been so much more reliable. That is ...

Today showcases a poetic form we haven’t used in The New York Sun’s Poem of the Day feature: the pantoum. This repetitive form comes to us as an import, via the French, from Malaysia, and it consists ...

Lately, I’ve been struggling to get a good night’s sleep. Perhaps you have, too. Some of the hottest weather on record, dramatic storms, alarming headlines and the minor stresses of day-to-day life ...

You make your bed and sleep too deep in cradles of diamonds and ore Indeed, you slumber too deep in couches of silver and gold. With wheedling lullaby, you lounge too deep in divans of bauxite and oil ...

Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illus. by Alyssa Nassner. Abrams Appleseed, $15.95 (44p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1037-7 Divided into sections that include “Food,” “Family,” and “Play,” this tender, ...

When Traci Brimhall wrote, “We all want/to be broken for one another is why,” I believed I understood the poem. Thought I knew something about what this love thing she was getting into was about. But ...

Brian Teasdale wrote a lullaby for his daughter nearly 60 years ago. Now his daughter Karen Teasdale-Robson has taken that ...