You can almost feel what it must be like to be the Hudson River. This poet has animated, even humanized, the presumably abiotic waters of the Hudson River, getting us to slosh back and forth with it ...

Here in April, celebrated annually as National Poetry Month, I’ve been wondering: Is there a truly great poem about the Mississippi River? The question first came to mind last December when a copy of ...

The title, of course, alludes to one of the fundamental forces of nature, which underlies certain kinds of radioactivity as well as some interactions among subatomic particles. So consider, first, the ...

A playful group of poets from all over came together for the seventh annual Little River Poetry Festival, held under sunny skies at On the Water Outfitters last weekend. A record number of first time ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The late Stanley Kunitz began his second tenure as U.S. poet laureate in ...

BELLOWS FALLS — The Rockingham Library will host a free river-themed poetry workshop with the Vermont River Conservancy from 3 to 5 p.m. on March 7. Participants will read and discuss poems about ...

(Anchorage, AK) – Four poems by Alaska writers have been selected for installation on permanent signs in Ketchikan and Fairbanks state parks, as part of Poems in Place, a collaborative project to ...

The Northwestern poet Bill Stafford died in 1993, leaving behind many books of poems and essays, along with hundreds of hand-scrawled and typed but unpublished poems and one-liners. They tend to stop ...

Poet Gregory Orr rhapsodizes on a theme he has explored for nearly a decade: the “beloved,” the things we love. Of course, what we love can change over time, he says. “It can make you crazy by … ...