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 ...

Explore why spring's symbols like blossoms and birdsong inspire artists and poets worldwide, reflecting renewal, beauty, and ...

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 ...

Enchant children this Easter with delightful poems that celebrate the joy and wonder of the season. These charming verses are ...

Spring is a poet’s joy. Spring rhymes with everything. (Exactly) and Springtime is a rich source of poetic inspiration.

In early February, winter gray, Stretching sky high from the early morning earth, Begins again, slowly, to melt away. Slowly, invisibly almost. Too slight A pale to promise sun, much less rebirth. I ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Begun in 1996 to encourage the appreciation of poetry, National Poetry Month features a roster of poetry events and readings held all over the country at schools, libraries and bookstores. Its founder ...

In springtime, some people grow misty-eyed with allergies to pollen. The poet Lynne McMahon greets the season gladly, but with the recognition of the hay fever sufferer's fate at this coming time of ...