You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

In 2006 we encountered a version of the poem tweaked to make a sailor its central figure: A Sailor's Christmas. Twas the night before Christmas, the ship was out steaming, ...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is taking a Christmas-themed poetic swing at the omnibus spending bill. The Kentucky Republican unveiled his own version of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” on ...

In 2023 Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, officially proclaimed December 23rd “’Twas the Night Before Christmas Day”. Even the First Lady is getting involved, with early editions of ...

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. By Tina Jordan “In thousands of homes and by hundreds of thousands of children ...