And now, in time for Halloween, we have “Dusk in Autumn,” a children’s verse about twilight in the fall. In two six-line stanzas — each a pair of three-line clusters, two four-foot lines followed by a ...

O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; To-morrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; To-morrow they may form and go.

Robert Pinsky, a prominent voice in American poetry, visited Porter Square Books on Oct. 29 to talk about and read from his new anthology of poetry, “The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes ...

As happy be as earth is beautiful, Were I some other or with earth could turn . In alternation of violet and rose, Harebell and snowdrop, at their season due, And gorse that has no time not to be gay.