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.

Raleigh begins with stock materials of love poetry, familiar stuff deployed with ravishing, expert verbal music: a narrative about the characters Love and Nature, with praise of a lady's parts ...

Stephanie’s experiences of the blurring lines between her loved ones, the beauty of the nature around her, and their histories turned into a cascade of poems flowing out of her. Her appreciation ...

In 1798, William Wordsworth (1770–1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) joined to produce Lyrical Ballads, the book that began the great run of British Romantic poetry. In tetrameter quatrains ...

three-line poems that capture the essence of a moment, typically involving nature. Traditional Japanese haiku consists of three lines with a 5/7/5 syllable pattern, but modern adaptations often ...