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 ...

The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and the afternoon breezes are doing their best to hold off the sure-to-come heat ...

April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom.

When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect — or to reconnect — people to the world around them and to their ...