And in today’s Poem of the Day, the eighteenth-century poet Mary Leapor (1722–1746) observes the same trait in her imagined friend “Aurelia.” Aurelia delights in other women’s shortcomings, but ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...