April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover week. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the ...

Spring Festival Couplet (春联), also known as Door Couplet, symbolizes the Chinese great expectation for the future. It is one of Spring Festival Mascots and a special literary form of Chinese ...

Editor's note: As winter chill still lingers through early spring, longing for warm days has sprung up everywhere. Before the flowers are in full blossom, here is a collection of ancient Chinese poems ...

It’s easy to think of Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) as a caricature of her own extremes: morbid and (as other of her poems we have run in the Sun suggest) maybe a little hysterical, certainly strange ...

“Spring night four a.m.” from Allen Ginsberg’s “Wait Till I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems,” reviewed for the Los Angeles Times by Craig Teicher.

I had wanted to write a spring poem. I had hoped it would showyou what goes into the making of a poem, the subject that I am to address. However, I had a paper to write and a deadline to meet. So I ...