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 anthology of African-American nature poetry features work by contemporary ... poet laureate Marilyn Nelson, begins with the lines: "Arachis Hypogaea may have been / smuggled to North America ...

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 ...

Yet, there is a sense of steadiness and balance in the rhythm of the lines. This is a crucial element in a poem. The rhythm and feel of the lines convey the mood of the bird. Whatever the apparent ...

"I've felt the guilt and the shame of what humanity has done to nature." Her signature project as poet laureate, "You Are Here," focuses on how poetry can ... without any lines in them − I ...

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 ...