What more than poetry can show us the beauty in which we are immersed? Poetry, in fact, is multiform, ductile, malleable. Like water, it can become wave and current, tear and dew, puddle and rain ...

“What is poetry? Why, sir,” roared Dr. Johnson to his ever-attentive Boswell, “we all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is . . . It is much easier to say what it is not ...

In the pastoral English countryside where Irish rockabilly musician Imelda May is ... Your “G.B.H.” poem has an almost hip-hop ... So it’s just Nature saying, “Dance with me, and I’ll ...

Black Nature features work by contemporary writers, alongside poems by writers like Phillis Wheatley, who was born in Africa in the mid-18th century and brought to America as a slave in 1761 ...

Tariq Alexander Qaiser is a distinguished, award-winning architect and a celebrated ecologist, filmmaker, photographer and author. His third book, and his first poetry collection, Soliloquies ...

Wheatley learned English, Greek and Latin, and, as Dungy writes, "became the first black person in America to publish a book of poetry when, in 1773, her collection of 39 poems, Poems on Various ...

Children’s poetry, with the notable exception of Dr. Seuss and a few other masters, does not have as prominent a place in English or American literature as it does in other literatures. It is ...