Much of Mark Wunderlich’s decidedly sincere and dexterous new book The Earth Avails derives, as well as extrapolates from a little leather volume of common prayers, a treasury of highly particular, ...

World Earth Day 2025: Earth Day, observed annually on April 22nd, stands as a global reminder of our responsibility towards the environment. It's a day dedicated to raising awareness about pressing ...

Poets frequently pay homage to nature — whether it be to the single sprouting cherry blossom or the blade of grass that bends toward the sun. Words, much like nature, glisten with the beauty and ...

In 22 accessible free-verse poems, Sidman (The Girl Who Drew Butterflies) addresses Earth as a living being, marveling at its grandeur (“Earth,/ How can we ever understand/ your bigness?/ Our ...

EARTH upon earth hath woefully wrought; Now earth bringeth earth to nought; For earth on earth hath sought How earth to ruin be brought. Earth sendeth on earth the dearth Of exquisite youth and mirth, ...

The relentless cycle of human violence plays out as a brutal symbolic game Salt, Snow, Earth Salt bites Snow. Snow slaps Earth. Earth pounds Salt. And so it goes, on and on and on round and round in ...

Since the origins of poetry itself, many of literature’s greatest poets have paid homage to nature with their words. From a single bending blade of grass to the starry expanse of the night sky, and ...