Today showcases a poetic form we haven’t used in The New York Sun’s Poem of the Day feature: the pantoum. This repetitive form comes to us as an import, via the French, from Malaysia, and it consists ...

1. Slumber song “sung to infants.” 2. Sing as to lull goodnight. Orchestral nocturne, The World in the Evening. Drowsy eyes, silent night. A measurement of proximity to rest. Promise of sweet dreams.

When Traci Brimhall wrote, “We all want/to be broken for one another is why,” I believed I understood the poem. Thought I knew something about what this love thing she was getting into was about. But ...

Lately, I’ve been struggling to get a good night’s sleep. Perhaps you have, too. Some of the hottest weather on record, dramatic storms, alarming headlines and the minor stresses of day-to-day life ...

Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illus. by Alyssa Nassner. Abrams Appleseed, $15.95 (44p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1037-7 Divided into sections that include “Food,” “Family,” and “Play,” this tender, ...