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 ...

April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

DEAR READERS: Spring is a beautiful season full of new beginnings. The hibernating animals come out of their slumber to play. Daylight hours are longer, so there is more time to enjoy the warm ...

Spring quotes are a great way to celebrate the beginning of what is arguably the best season. The spring equinox, or the first day of spring, is always something to look forward to. Spring provides ...

Is it too late to say a few deep words about National Poetry Month? I am sorry to say it is not. Although the calendar just flipped from April to May, from National Poetry Month to National ...

Spring: still several weeks away, but how impatiently a Marylander awaits it. Spring: the foretaste of big books, in the publishers’ spring catalogs; the season of book-and-author sessions for readers ...

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 ...