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 journey of today’s Poem of the Day from the eighth-century Chinese of Li Bai (701–762) to the twentieth-century English of Ezra Pound is a convoluted one. This might be a more diplomatic way of ...

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 ...

SHAFTSBURY, Vt. — Poet David Crews has written a poetry cycle inspired by his hikes on protected lands within the Hoosic River Watershed. He has dedicated the poem cycle to the Hoosic River Watershed ...

(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 ...

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 … ...

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 … ...