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 Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

He read a poem called Yeats on the Bus to Enniskillen or something like that. I absolutely fell in love with the poem and I had a huge crush on him for about a month afterwards.

When you reread the same poem over and over again, you stop scrolling along the surface and dive deep beneath it.