The Tōkaidō was the most important route in 19th-century Japan. It connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo), the de facto capital ...

The following are the winning poems from the 2025 Nature in Verse Poetry Contest, held by Seymour Library in partnership with ...

Rangers are scouring Victoria's high country for a horse that escaped handlers during a re-enactment of Banjo Patterson's Man ...

Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a poem of your own — you delivered.

Shamu, the world-famous orca, captured hearts worldwide as ... shedding light on the complexities and ethical dilemmas of marine animal captivity. The name "Shamu" has since been used for many ...

From delightful Christmas poems for kids that inspire little ones to become Santa’s little helpers to famous poems that bring warmth and joy to cold winter days, these poems capture the magic of ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

“At precisely the moment when the poem is thematizing an unnatural reversal of inside and outside, you are feeling the other side of another animal As for the the tale of Sir Gawain—who was ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Kori Rumore, a journalist at The Chicago Tribune, joins John Landecker on the program to discuss animals that have gone viral and become famous in Chicago and then shares a look back on this day in ...