ASHLAND Nature has always been a friend to Steve Holt. “As a young man, I often went to the hills for solace, roaming and thinking,” he said, noting he hunted and fished with his father, but that wasn ...

Trips with his family to the west of Ireland prompted poetry about nature, but Longley did not avoid writing about the conflict around him. Poems like The Ice Cream Man, Wounds, Kindertotenlieder ...

“But his passion was for writing about the natural world.” The classical tradition, specifically in Greek and Latin literature, was a key feature of Mr. Longley’s poetry. As he said in a ...

It was a "core memory" and the first time the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States − the first Latina appointed to the role − felt a "deep connection" to nature. Start the day smarter.

Swampscott Conservancy Next month is National Poetry Month — 30 days to celebrate poets and poetry! New England has had its share of famed poets — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, ...

Simon Kövesi and Mina Gorji on the ecocentric and egocentric nature of Clare's poetry. So intimate was Clare with every tree, bush, practically every blade of grass in and around his village of ...