And what is so rare as a day in June?” asked the nineteenth-century New England poet James Russell Lowell in an 1848 ...

Though full terraforming may take centuries, if not millennia, the long-term goal would be a Mars with stable liquid water, ...

A Phillips Collection show places the work of Washington, D.C., poet Essex Hemphill alongside artwork his life and writing inspired.

If the composition and dissemination of verse is as volatile as anything in the cosmos, the reading of it can also be as ...

On this Earth Day, WHYY “Morning Edition” host Jennifer ... She was considered a Black Mountain poet, which is basically the school of poetry that — again — free verse, avant-garde, experimental. But ...

In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before it was all greens and earth tones. It was the sudden awakening of a new aesthetic; our “shrew ...

I’ve seen this power in action while teaching the poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, whose final verse declares, “I’d rather smell of musty, green stench / than of sweet, fragrant lilac. / If I ...

As one netizen said, her poems "grow from the earth and dissolve into time." Lü took part in the recently concluded 2025 Chinese Farmers Poetry Festival held in Chizhou, East China's Anhui ...

No free verse for us. But, oh, I am so happy that I can choose to pray with poetry now, and that I live among people who encourage such things. It’s another way to do good in this world.

His relative isolation from the bleakly serious scholarly poetry scene of postwar Japan likely helped him take his free-verse approach that went on to innovate and define Japanese contemporary ...

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...