Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

One of the most memorable images from last week's snowfall shows a woman wearing historical fashion in the French Quarter.

But snow? Not so much. The city went 15 years without measurable snow until Tuesday morning. “I would call it a poet’s snow,” waxed Kevin Bennett, a writer who pulled a folding chair outside ...