Henry Brooke's long poem Universal Beauty (1735) is "the most significant philosophical poem written by an Irish writer in the 18th century" and stands up well to Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man.

Black Nature features work by contemporary writers, alongside poems by writers like Phillis Wheatley, who was born in Africa in the mid-18th century and brought to America as a slave in 1761.

Her signature project as poet laureate, "You Are Here," focuses on how poetry can help connect people to the natural world. Limón, named a 2024 Time magazine woman of the year, is the author of ...

Poet Finds Summer Is A Time To Reconnect With Nature In this poem, ... as I drifted to dark - said the one word, kingfisher. And I caught his blue, pulled back from the only place I'd ever seen him.

De Los Latino Poetry Series: Nature. This illustrated poetry series will feature new works by Latino poets in Los Angeles and across the U.S. Each week in November, guest editor José Olivarez and ...

This is why he critiques nature poetry in Nature Poem, his new book. ... That repelled him. “I had to become an individual before I could come back to the group,” he says.

Limón continues to write poetry “one poem at a time, because that anchors me to the world,” she said. On Oct. 1, 2024, she will release a children’s book featuring the poem she wrote for ...

Poet and author Stephanie Oakey debuts her first book, Poems of a Southern Nobody, a collection of over 60 poems that explores the kinship between nature, people, and time.She paints a vivid ...

Nature is how you were born, with a birthmark that blazed when you cried, centered right between your brows like a bull’s-eye. There was a time , you want to say.