For the rest of their short lives, the sisters continued to write and publish poems as well as novels. Emily’s “To a Wreath of Snow,” for example, appeared as Poem of the Day on Monday. As Acton Bell ...

So Padel helpfully includes “Life-Notes: A Coda,” some 30 pages of short biographical bits linked to the four sections of poems (49 in all). Even these entries have poetic elegance.

When Johnny Cash died almost 15 years ago, he left behind a treasure trove of unpublished poems and handwritten letters. The new album Johnny Cash: Forever Words, out now, immortalizes those words ...

Gordon initially set one Dickinson poem, I Felt a Funeral in My Brain, and played it for Ridge director Bob McGrath — who liked the result so much he suggested they expand it into a larger work.

Poems about Mandela date back at least to the 1970s with “And I Watch it in Mandela,” by South Africa’s John Matshikiza.

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 ...