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, ...

Emily Dickinson appears once again on our list of poems about life, this time with words that conjure the image of a bird.

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Mountain and the ...

But the poem also looks further back, to Wordsworth, particularly to his early lyrical ballad, ‘Expostulation and Reply,’ which makes a similar argument for the epistemological value to be found in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Margaret McCarthy describes “In the Becoming” as a “full circle moment.” The volume subtitled “Poems on the Deirdre Story” ...

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 ...

A study was performed by Gandhi et al. to determine the prevalence and characteristics of endocrinopathies in POEMS syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by polyneuropathy, organomegaly ...