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Advice Dear Annie: Welcome in spring with these poems Published: Apr. 20, 2025, 5:31 a.m.
Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy spring. Whether you just celebrated Passover, Easter or any other holiday, I do hope that you make time to celebrate spring.
Advice Dear Annie: Enjoy these poems that celebrate spring Published: Apr. 20, 2025, 2:00 a.m.
So we asked kids, ages 6 to 14, to help us mark National Poetry Month 2022 by writing short, original poems about spring. The writers of the nearly 350 poems we received focused on images ...
LITTLE POEMS (Everyman’s Library, $18), a new anthology edited by Michael Hennessy, provides a history of short poems since antiquity, from Sappho to Ocean Vuong, a lovely pocket-size volume ...
Advice Dear Annie: An ode to spring (poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood) Published: Apr. 17, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Poems have been selected from new books being published this spring. (You can also go to the Poem-A-Day archive and catch up on any you’ve missed, including today’s poem by Jack Gilbert.) ...
Scrubbing the Sheep Tank Even in midwinter, algae thrives in the tank So I find myself on this 18-degree day Bending to it, circling the surface, January wind scouring my face. I scrub the scum ...
This image released by HarperCollins shows author Jami Attenberg, founder of the 1,000 word challenge, calling for people to write 1,000 words a day for 14 days. The 2021 challenge began May 31 ...