A.E. Housman (1859–1936) had a talent — perhaps the greatest in the history of English poetry — for making difficult verse look simple, as the Sun pointed out when Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty ...

Proud Mother Nature, she made them all. Made some of them short and others quite tall. In green and in red, and even in gold, Skinny and round, wispy and bold. Some specimens bent and a few that are ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Even on a computer screen, Ada Limón, who is serving her second term as poet laureate of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In the Bryant neighborhood of south Minneapolis, there's a tree that doesn't ask for much — just a little kindness and the willingness to connect. "Read a poem, write a poem, take a poem ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Michelle Schaub, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, “tucked up against the Rocky Mountain foothills.” She began writing for children after a creative ...

So far during the course of Poetry from Daily Life we’ve heard about a number of ways in which poets find inspiration for their poems. Taking a walk. Observing. Starting with a single word. Choosing a ...

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins writes.

An inspired 'trees and poems' legacy is being created in the heart of Birmingham to remember the city's literary genius Benjamin Zephaniah. The trees – a mixture of fruit trees and other species ...

The poem came to mind today when the leaves swirled at my feet. It always does. It’s a poem that works as memory works. A ...