My kids sit spellbound by the rhythm, the humor, the distilled descriptions of a world they know and love, and beg for more. Their favorite poems are about nature ... to the Wall To let a Beetle ...

Though socially reclusive and known for her introspection and focus on deep spiritual themes, Emily Dickinson is one of the ...

“And yet the poets, we love to see if we can figure ... In its intimacy, its revelation not just of nature but also of the perceiving self, nature poems offer one of the few paths we have ...

In the first line of the poem, the narrator famously expresses a hesitation about this task: “Something there is,” he announces, “that doesn’t love a wall.” You can be sure that ...

Published by Four Way Books. Judith Barrington: “Long Love: New and Selected Poems 1985-2017” (Salmon Poetry, 106 pages, $21). “…if you listen / you will learn there is no such thing as ...

Of his approach over his half-a-century-and-counting career, former U.S. Poet Laureate and former “American Life in Poetry” columnist Ted Kooser has said, “I write for other people with the ...

Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry. By Elisa Gabbert ... They seemed to bring the sky closer. “I love looking at photographs of ...