Uh Oh, Spring Has Sprung! “Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, / The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; / And ‘tis my ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover week. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the ...

National Poetry Month is a fitting time to revisit E. E. Cummings’ “in Just,” a playful poem about spring, childhood and change.

April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

This week’s poem, by Sheila Wellehan, follows the movements of a creature’s bone, revealed and carried by spring. I love the ...

bowing pines. Determined snow flakes fell, flocking Mother Nature in a fluffy, white gown. Another wink of winter’s snow. She glistens, spreading her soft blanket with a gentle whisper. “Not yet, ...

I’m writing this column in the earliest days of another spring, and here’s a fine spring poem from Rose King’s book “Time and Peonies,” from Hummingbird Press. The poet lives in California. a man in a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sandra Justice is an ex-cop, a single mom, a former member of the U.S. Air Force, a gardener, a cook, and when National Public Radio personality Garrison ...

Begun in 1996 to encourage the appreciation of poetry, National Poetry Month features a roster of poetry events and readings held all over the country at schools, libraries and bookstores. Its founder ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the flowers ...