Oscar Sarmiento of Potsdam wrote the poem, "Sisters" after a hike with his son and a family friend to a mountain waterfall in ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

On the table in my room, cigarettes, knife, notebook, 7 P.M. I sit down to write so my head don’t blow up. Perhaps you know ...

Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

I don’t do drugs; I do bins.” By turns introspective, inquisitive, and funny, the book is a love letter to nature and the ...

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you.

This is the largest of four spontaneous roadside memorials, stretching several hundred feet along the northern fence of John ...

For 20 years, teens from around the country have come to Washington, D.C. to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud finals.

At the Clark on Saturday, May 3, Compagnia de’ Colombari will screen seven short films, as part of the nationwide "Whitman on ...