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 ...

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.

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 ...