Camille T. Dungy, the editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry, calls her book a first of its kind. The nearly 200 poems in the anthology reach back to the mid ...

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry ...

When I first started writing, I hated nature poems. Poems about the trees in Massachusetts or those contemplating winter in Vermont felt insulting to me. I grew up in Calumet City, Ill., ...

Blossomise, a collection by the UK’s poet laureate Simon Armitage, celebrates the arrival of spring and the importance of nature in our lives. This anthology includes 21 poems, featuring 11 ...

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.

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 its intimacy, its revelation not just of nature but also of the perceiving self, nature poems offer one of the few paths we have to consider the risks to the natural world in a way that is free ...

Proud Mother Nature, she made them all. Made some of them short and others quite tall. In green and in red, and even in gold, Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each ...

Nature is you, and the doing to it ... their self-justified gait as they disappear through the tunnel of flowers. This poem has been excerpted from the collection You Are Here, edited by Ada ...

Proud Mother Nature, she made them all. Made some of them short and others quite tall. In green and in red, and even in gold, Skinny and round ...