It's almost here. You held out hope that it would never arrive, but that bitter season always finds a way to rear its ugly head once again. That's right, the first day of winter is fast approaching — ...

I've been thinking lately about what is only able to be said through poetry. How a poem can transform a moment into a feeling and make a memory come to life. Poetry has an incantatory effect; I read a ...

Winter Poetus by Favorite American Poets. With Illustrations. Boston : Fields, Osgood, & Co. A Child’s Dream of a Star. By CHARLES DICKENS. With Illustrations by ...

When I moved to California last year, I didn't think it was possible to miss the snow. Of all the natural phenomena, snow is pretty low on my list. Despite those first sparkling flakes, as someone who ...

Francisco X. Alarcbon celebrates a San Francisco winter in Iguanas in the Snow: And Other Winter Poems/ Iguanas en la nieve: y otros poemas de invierno. The title poem describes a family delighted ...

Dear Readers: Below are a few of my favorite poems about winter and snowy days. I hope you enjoy them while the days are shorter and the nights longer. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

Just as Sidman and Allen saw through the ominousness of night to find beauty and joy in the Newbery Honor–winning Dark Emperor, they now discover warmth, community, and wisdom in the dead of winter.

Jimmy Santiago Baca wrote the collection, "Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande" in 2004 after living on the banks of that river. Every morning, he ran through snow, rain and mud in a ritual that he ...

In a series of exquisitely blunt, elegiac poems for his mother, Carl Adamshick returns from her dying days to a changed world: “new calendar” — everything has altered forever. (Many poems in his ...