Trees are known to communicate to one another through an underground network, a kind of fungal and bacterial internet. It’s possible that they have something to say to us, as well. I invite our ...

Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people as she could, asking participants to recall specific ...

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) had a talent — perhaps the greatest in the history of English poetry — for making difficult verse look simple, as the Sun pointed out when Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty ...

The man who regularly trims trees and cuts down dead ones at our cottage found a tree he thought might need to go. I wasn’t there, but my sister was. Even though she’s part-owner, he said, “Call your ...

Communicators. Migrants. Soothsayers. Beings more deserving of the rights of personhood than the corporations that have been conferred that legal protection. Editor and artist Katie Holten celebrates ...

Venice: Ildikó Enyedi's trio of tales about plant communication across the ages provides few thrills but some elegant ...

Poetry essentially is figurative language, concentrated so that its form is both expressive and evocative. Figuration is a departure from the literal, and the form of a great poem itself can be a ...

Poetry is fantastic! It is a type of writing that is designed to bring out feelings (emotions) in the reader or the person who is listening to it being read aloud. How to write poetry. Poetry is a ...