U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón has announced her signature project titled " You Are Here," which hopes to engage people with poetry and nature. United States poet laureate AdaLimón recently ...

a collection of over 60 poems that explores the kinship between nature, people, and time. She paints a vivid picture of the wildlife she grew up with in the vast and unyielding wilderness of North ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of references to the porpoises. According to Mei, the fact that a freshwater mammal ...

“People are welcome to share it on social ... Limón said “You Are Here” is intended to celebrate the blending of poetry and nature. “But it’s also about allowing us to re-imagine ...

“I wanted to have a book that not only allowed us to think of many different ways that nature poems can exist and move in the world, but also give people permission to write their own nature ...

When I first started writing, I hated nature poems. Poems about the trees in Massachusetts ... How do we (especially us city people) heal our relationship with the beings all around us?

In a world of war sickness and grief,hard to believe there’s any relief. We’ll always have people that maim and kill,and ...

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 pastoral form presents an idyllic form of nature in which shepherds stroll through fields and the land yields things up ...

Mei says that the fact that a freshwater mammal like the Yangtze finless porpoise appears so often in these poems reflects the deep connection between people and nature in Ancient China.