Christmas poems to put you in a festive mood. S now-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most ...

In this poem, Miami poet Castillo, who immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba in 1970, considers a little girl experiencing her first Christmas in a new country, assembling an aluminum tree with her family.

When Rick Arnold of St. Louis, Missouri, wrote these words in December of 2007, he didn’t know that Christmas would be his last.

Christmas coming as it does, nuanced steps in the darkness. Those Wise Men of old no longer travel. The man and his wife are coming. Their baby will arrive in the night while, all around, other ...

For more than 100 years, generations of children have enjoyed listening to their parents read the classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas." Robert Sabuda, ...

Nov. 24—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Four years after local author Robet Forte's Christmas poem "A Tale of Christmas" was first published, the magical tale can now be found in hardcover print, complete ...

In 1823 a newspaper poem that would later be called “’Twas the Night before Christmas” had a sleigh being pulled by reindeer. By the mid-19th century the writer Thomas Nast first mentioned ...

“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night! ... ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas’ Story- Full Text And Original Poem. By Rebecka Schumann Published 12/24/17 AT 11:30 AM EST.

From the Archives: ‘Christmas Poem’ by e. e. cummings In a 1956 Atlantic issue showcasing poetry, cummings offered a modernist take on the familiar story of Jesus’s birth. December 25, 2018 ...

The Nutcracker, E.T.A. Hoffmann. Originally written in 1816, the story of German author E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker has become a holiday icon in its own right. Most notably remembered ...

A Christmas poem for the garden lover: T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The mice, it would seem, with the moles and ...

Can the saga of the 2016 election be summarized in poetry? One journalist has given it a shot. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy. ... 2016 as told through a Christmas poem.