This phenomenon, called marcescence, adds a unique dimension to the winter landscape, and gives me something to ponder while ...

In “The Bitterroot Path,” one watches her move from lyric’s uncontaminated source of wonder in its Romantic roots to ...

The principle of equality is theoretically recognized as one of the fundamental foundations of democracy. Over the years, ...

I’ve been in Japan for less than 24 hours and somehow, I’ve found myself in a ruby-red basement bar watching an 89-year-old ...

My introduction to poetry — not counting, of course, jump rope rhymes and Valentine sentiments — was in 1945. I was in fifth ...

WRITING in Latin, the Scottish poet Arthur Johnstone (c1579-1641), has a series of pre-Union poems in praise of Scottish cities, taking them each ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.