Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

I’ll take occasional breaks to play online word games, competing against random strangers. I must think of words quickly.

Mother’s Day, observed on the second Sunday of May since 1908, is widely celebrated as a tribute to mothers’ love, sacrifice, ...

With a new album on the way, Bolero’s frontman Gregorio Perez Figueroa reflects on rooftop jams, pandemic rehearsals in ...

Ocean Vuong's 2019 debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was one of those novels that made me silently pledge, "I'll ...

The Poetry of Why: poet Chimwemwe Undi on a lifetime ... I Would Give You My Tail is for ages 3 to 7. Mother Earth: My Favourite Artist is a picture book by Carol Rose GoldenEagle (upper right ...

In honor of Sa’adi Day (21 April) and Mother Earth Day (22 April), we turn to Persian poetry: a timeless reminder of our bond with nature. For centuries, poets like Sa’adi, Parvin, Sohrab, and Attar ...

And builds a road from earth to sky, Is prettier far than these. One of the most deceptively simple short poems, Christina Rossetti ... Italian father and English mother, Rossetti, like her ...

(Vol. 33) In my opinion we sinned against God and man when we did not take care to keep mother earth and our river water clean. We have poetry enough in ourselves to call earth "mother earth" and ...

“Mother gone to ash / river gone to drowned,” Nicole Cooley writes in the titular poem of "Mother Water Ash ... two deltic cities where tombs rise from the earth, become unmistakable.