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 ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy spring. Whether you just celebrated Passover, Easter or any other holiday, I do hope that you make time to celebrate spring. It is a time of renewal where we ...

Click to open image viewer. This unique scroll, over thirty-six feet long, is filled with poems and illustrations celebrating springtime, when Kama, god of love, evokes passion in the hearts of all.

In its 42nd year, the 2026 Salina Spring Poetry Series features a lineup of accomplished poets who will read in downtown ...

Notes: Few passers-by notice a granite marker on Cider Hill Road (Route 91) that identifies the spot where John Greenleaf Whittier in 1854 encountered a young farm girl in bare feet raking hay, which ...

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 ...