For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and decline, beauty and loss. In earlier traditions, from Shakespeare to Keats, ...

Across centuries and continents, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror of human experience: a time when beauty and decay, fullness and farewell, coexist. From Shakespeare’s trembling sonnets to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As autumn sleds into winter, winners of the Cape Cod Times Poetry Contest all contain a sense of departure ― even a touch of ...

For the last seven years, several Longmont residents have met as part of a private group, solely to write poems. Some of the 20 active members are engineers, one works in finance, another is a ...

Inspired by the success of its Poem-a-Day effort, the Academy of American Poets announced it is launching a new program meant to introduce poetry to the classroom. Beginning September 2, the group’s ...

The fall pond cheerless, the water clear, I fish from a small boat drifting here. Tiny blue ripples roll through the mist, The wind, the leaves fly past with the year. From a deep blue sky hang rows ...

ANOTHER TIME—W. H. Auden—Random House ($2). AUTUMN JOURNAL — Louis MacNeice —Random House ($1.50). English poets have seldom left England —the Christian world’s poetical home base—except on scholarly ...

For members of the Southern Minnesota Poets Society in Mankato, poetry is an opportunity to take personal, authentic, even daily and seemingly mundane experiences and turn them into something vivid ...