The most famous of poems about the fall is probably still Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73”—the poem with the line “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” It appeared last week as The New York ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and ...

On Oct. 16, the Department of English welcomed Sri Lankan poet and Harvard professor Vidyan Ravinthiran to campus. As The Gund’s Community Foundation Theater filled with students and their visiting ...

Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats “The trees are in their autumn beauty, ...

Across centuries and continents, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror of human experience: a time when beauty and decay, ...

We're going to Circadia today. The Box Elder bugs will lead the way.. Minutes of sunshine will go away. Losing out in the new autumn day.. Leaves are falling to the ground. Plante ...

As part of a series of seasonal conversations and poetry, Todd Moe spoke with Vermont poet David Crews about his poems and their connections to... Oct 18, 2023 — As part of a series of seasonal ...

In his latest collection, the Pulitzer winner Carl Phillips relies on sinuous language to evoke love, heartache and the passing of the years. By Stephanie Burt Stephanie Burt is a professor of English ...

For Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the road that began at age twenty led inexorably to the consolations of wombats, whiskey, chloral, and the culmination of the grave. From our vantage point, this poem falls ...