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 ...

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 ...

If you listen carefully, you can see the world through their eyes, even if it's not in your nature to swoon over bugs and branches. So whether you love poetry, hate poetry, don't get poetry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...