As summarized by T. S. Eliot: “Bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better.” Mr. William Butler Yeats borrowed an old Irish folk song and made it into one of the most ...

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. 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 ...

New York often gives you a conflict. Last night, at 7:30, in Alice Tully Hall, Susan Graham, the eminent American mezzo-soprano, gave a recital, along with the pianist Malcolm Martineau, an eminent ...

Iréne Salley, an oil painter, walks barefoot through her lush garden in Northwest Gainesville. She wears a paint-stained sundress and a wide-brimmed hat. As she names the flora she has planted, Salley ...