The poem was a 192-word tribute to their ... honored the 6-year-old in front of roughly 30 of his family members, dedicating a cherry tree and the yearbook to him. Tyler's mother, Tonya McIntyre ...

Sandwiched within the broader family story is a narrative of the ... In the case of the opening poem, “Cherry Tree,” that voice comes from the titular character, a tree. As the surrounding ...

It was a piece of paper, and handwritten in "beautiful cursive" was a poem, addressed to the Lancaster ... going through census records and family trees. From our morning news briefing to a ...

A flash. The years, like light that’s fading, lapse. We’re looking into eyes we don’t know yet. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with ...

Fears that surround the Other can rapidly slip into prejudices and stereotypes. In this razzle-dazzle poem, José Olivarez ramps up his litany of misbegotten “folklore” by embellishing ...