William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.

Awareness of the dangers to our environment came of age in the 1960s, resulting in crucial legislation, a conservation movement and creation of the Environmental Protection Agency during the 1970s. It ...

How can studying a poem or writing a story give students the skills to imagine a healthy planetary future? Stephanie Jones ...

The constant presence of nature has been a fixture of Lake County for ages. Even before settlers founded the county in 1861, the great tracks of land have remained alongside Clear Lake. For ...

Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. Cost: $25 plus fees. More information: getlitfestival2023.sched.com A poetry workshop hosted by Ada Limón on Friday at the Central Library is sold ...

Earth Day 2022 lands the same month the United Nations has issued a particularly grave warning that it is "now or never" to act to stop the damage we are doing to our planet through runaway greenhouse ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

If the Transcendentalists produced no great poets, they did produce an oddity in Jones Very (1813–1880). To write about him is almost inevitably, and not without reason, to couple his already striking ...

Johnson and Fancher's (My Many Colored Days) progression of paintings captures an uncanny likeness to the shifting light during the course of a single day, inspired by a first-time-author team's ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Humans spend most of their waking hours playing with what novelist Rudyard Kipling called “the most powerful drug used by mankind”—words. In the laboratories of our minds, we sort, slice, and string ...

According to Rebecca, poetry is more of a “spur of the moment” – a more “fluid” form of creativity. The fantastical imagery presented in her two poems ‘The Lost Fairytales’ and ‘The Ruin of the Dream’ ...