Swampscott Conservancy Next month is National Poetry Month — 30 days to celebrate poets and poetry! New England has had its share of famed poets — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, ...

Simon Kövesi and Mina Gorji on the ecocentric and egocentric nature of Clare's poetry. So intimate was Clare with every tree, bush, practically every blade of grass in and around his village of ...

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte reflects on the power of words and explores why accepting and celebrating the human ...

The hurt boy and the birds A boy expresses his pain through communion with nature. Poetry jump-up A joyful celebration of words in verse. There are eight programmes in this series. Each of the ...

Mr. Longley included flowers in another public poem about the Troubles, “The Ice-Cream Man.” It begins with these lines: His subjects were consequential — love, nature and the nature of man ...

Her poetry is about people, the old and the young, the sick and the dying, and the fleeting moments she observed. It is about the beauty of nature and solace in walking among the trees and hills.

On the eve of our nineteenth year, the sky cracked, its molten innards sloshing to and fro, its boiling yolk slipped out as our lips cried for home. “Stand, stand, stand,” said the boy. “If ...