Reminiscent of “Starting From San Francisco,” one of the first books by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco is also where Victor Depta spent some of his early years and where this 2024 reprint of his ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

Acclaimed Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) wrote this exquisite poem for fiery Irish revolutionary and actress Maud Gonne in 1899. Arguably one of the most beautiful love poems ever ...

From a collection set in a landfill to an author’s cultural exploration of a critically endangered species, these books ...

These lovely short poems for kids will get the little ones excited to read stanza after stanza Short poems for kids that ...

A Parable of Black Love , Newark filmmaker Opoku “OpotheBoat” Boateng has returned with a new short film, Return to Nature .

Kevin Young first wrote his story about Emile, a boy in love with a field, as a bedtime poem for his son years ago. Now, it lives on as a picture book with watercolor illustrations by Chioma Ebinama.

Her signature project as poet laureate, "You Are Here," focuses on how poetry can help connect people to the natural world. Limón, named a 2024 Time magazine woman of the year, is the author of ...

Thank you, Mother Nature. Here's a Christmas poem to honor our love for trees Paul Cappiello Yew Dell Botanical Gardens 0:00 ...

Todd Moe caught up with him to talk about how nature and art can inspire poetry, and to share a poem for winter. Still Life Some call it— Nature’s Sheds —that which reminds us of the living.

Nature has been a theme and inspiration to poets since forever. When I first started writing, I hated nature poems. Poems about the trees in Massachusetts or those contemplating winter in Vermont ...

The language is correspondingly blunt and profane: unromantic, prosaic, crude. Or at least it seems that way. The romantic poetry of this poem sneaks up on you. Its music is subtle, but unmistakable.