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What could be better than ending April with a picture book about nature awakening in spring? We’ve got one today, along with ...
Longtime educator and author Laura Robb explains how daily practice with poems helped her granddaughter become a better ...
An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.
Willie Nelson's songwriting journey has been a longtime in the making, and it stared when he wrote his first poem at just six ...
Community Library Sedona hosted the second of four scored poetry readings in the competition to become the first Sedona Poet ...
April is National Poetry Month. It's also calving season, you know, when cows give birth to their babies. Apparently, someone here has an unfulfilled yearning for ranch life - no shade. But because of ...
Marilyn Gonrowski of Minnetonka is an active writer and prolific craftsperson who doesn’t have time to be bored.
"When I was little, my mom had margaritas like once a month and I wrote a whole poem book about how much she loves beer and sleeping," one user wrote. "My kids told everyone their dad drinks and ...
Haiku can serve as a catalyst for discussion and creativity as elementary students work together to create their own poems. Earlier in this school year, we used an assessment built into our Career and ...
In her charming introduction to this anthology, US poet laureate Ada Limón suggests that poems and trees “let us breathe together.” This comment calls to mind priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ...
It has been the scene of murders and mayhem, the site of lavish ambassadors’ parties and a location for poems, books and films. More than anything else, though, the Phoenix Park is the people ...
By Tas Tobey Tas Tobey is on the staff of the Book Review and is studying poetry in the M.F.A. program at the City College of New York. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...