No other season evokes such joy, love and wistful nostalgia, and we’ve selected 15 Christmas poems that perfectly capture all those sentiments with a pretty ribbon on top. As a longtime poetry ...

Today’s Poem of the Day, best known to church choirs in this mellifluous setting by John Rutter, is no exception. In three quatrains whose alternating trimeter-tetrameter meter reverses the standard ...

It is that love, I think, that’s the essence of the Christmas story and of any Christmas poem. ♦ Julian Lucas on Hilton Als’s “The Islander” The reporter’s casually piercing ...

You can read the full Christmas poem, but you may prefer cheerier children’s Christmas books as an alternative. Love for plea and gift and sign. So much more than just a muse for the Pre ...