A sonnet is a poem in English of 14 lines that can employ any of a number of formal rhyme schemes but usually ends with a rhyming couplet. There are 10 syllables per line.

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Oliver de la Paz’s poem is part of a series of “diaspora sonnets,” in which this one, along with others, create a whole, while each sonnet can still operate on its own.

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The sonnet's complex cascade of mental "states" begins with "disgrace"—a concept we have almost lost in our society. (Coetzee's novel Disgrace does an excellent and painful job of resurrecting it.) ...

This poem, from her new book of selected works, “Wicked Enchantment,” is classic Coleman: You get the jazz, the soul and also the idiosyncrasy. It is an unmistakable style that propels a ...

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) figured significantly in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. Though prominent as a diarist, journalist, and activist for ...