From ancient epics to modern masterpieces, poetry has shaped our understanding of humanity. Join us as we celebrate the ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn and Susan Phillips explore the beauty of nature through poetry, featuring iconic poets like Amanda Gorman, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg.

Celebrate Earth Day 2025 on Tuesday, April 22, with moving Earth Day quotesabout the environment from conservationists and ...

Many of us have witnessed almost David vs. Goliath battles as kingbirds and scissor-tailed flycatchers dive upon much larger, predatory birds, such as hawks, and literally fly into the faces of humans ...

In collaboration with fellow librarian Rebecca Tolley, Gwyn and Bull organized and coordinated a Student Poetry Contest at the Sherrod Library, with the theme of nature poetry. Thirty-four students ...

detained under inhumane conditions and possibly deported to foreign prisons, with no due process. I can’t help but think of Martin Niemoller’s famous poem: First they came for the Communists ...

The most famous of all Christmas poems ... But unlike those in most nature poems, the roses turn out to be the verses of the poem themselves, a sweet gift to cheer up the child on a dreary ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

You might know Maria Shriver because of her famous family, or because of her ... and out it came." What came out? Poetry. From "Fragments of Me" They are everywhere. The fragments of me.

The viral track, “Sawt Safiri El Bolboli (Qissa)“, is actually a poem by Abdul-Malik Al-Asma’i, performed as a song by Ahmed El Qatane in 2012. And guess what? It’s about the whistling ...