This month, MORNING EDITION has been taking a break from the heat with poetry. Today we're going to hear about Chris McCabe. For him, summer is a time to reconnect with nature. Out on a walk with ...

In the summerI stretch out on the shoreAnd think of youHad I told the seaWhat I felt for you,It would have left its shores,Its shells,Its fish,And followed me. 4. "Summer" by Louise Gluck Remember ...

These are seven poems to get you excited about fall and ready to say goodbye to summer, even if poetry is ... Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature -- not his Father but his Mother stirs ...

The title of this poem subverts expectations right away. After all, we associate summer with pleasure: vacations, the beach, sunshine. Each line operates in the declarative. Many lines end with a ...

His poem "Wie freu' ich mich der Sommerwonne!", or "How I rejoice the summer delight!" is full of exultation and merriment in summer's nature. "Wie freu’ ich mich der Sommerwonne, Des frischen ...

MK Asante reads a poem composed for Morning Edition titled, "In Summer." The Baltimore-based writer says it is in tribute to Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American poet. This next poem is by ...

Her poetry is about people, the old and the young, the sick and the dying, and the fleeting moments she observed. It is about the beauty of nature and solace in walking among the trees and hills.

By Craig Morgan Teicher SUMMER ... about poems that were funny, pissed off and right to the point, or so I thought. What did I want with Hass, a guy my dad’s age who wrote about nature, family ...

Their favorite poems are about nature, animals, and the weather. When I discovered that today, 4 October 2018, happens to be National Poetry Day, it felt fitting to share some of my family's ...

Local poet M.L. Liebler is teaming up with younger artists Cassie Poe and LaShauan Moore to write a poem about summer in the city, and they're Tweeting the whole thing line by line. The experiment ...

I can't write a nature poem bc English is some Stockholm shit, makes me complicit in my tribe's erasure - Why shd I give a fuck abt "poetry"? It's a container for words like whilst, hither and tamp.