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Versatile poet's work ranged from nature to civil strife
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 ...
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Nature in the Neighborhood: There’s poetry in nature
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, ...
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US Poet Laureate Ada Limón on writing, surrendering to nature (and her pug snoring)
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.
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Faber Nature Poets
The Spring 2025 issue of the magazine explores how creatives are using tech in novel ways and the many changes on the horizon for the creative industry itself ...
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Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
Higgins of Ireland as “a peerless poet,” Mr. Longley had “a deep curiosity ... It begins with these lines: His subjects were consequential — love, nature and the nature of man — but ...
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This West Kendall poet wrote the first ever Zip Ode. Ten years on, South Florida still inspires her
Beatriz Fernandez was the first person to submit a Zip Ode in 2015, about her neighborhood. This year marks the tenth ...