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 ...

In an age when our interaction with nature is usually at a transactional or mental level, it is instructive and fascinating ...

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we've been reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" in partnership with Seattle ...

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 ...

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing ...

From Ginsberg’s raw protest to Amanda Gorman’s stirring reflections and Walt Whitman’s enduring imagery, this segment explores how poetry has captured the spirit of the natural world across ...

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.

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

Poems have been read out and attached to newly planted trees in honour of writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah. The 65 readings ...