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, ...

Her poetry is about people, the old and the young, the sick and the dying, and the fleeting moments she observed. It is about the beauty of nature and solace in walking among the trees and hills.

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 ...

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte reflects on the power of words and explores why accepting and celebrating the human ...

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 ...