U.S. Poet Laureate Reads Fall Poem, 'Ancient Of Days' With the changing of seasons, U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright joins Melissa Block to read a poem that conjures feelings of autumn.

As autumn arrives, we notice that the days shorten significantly. This phenomenon, although natural, is due to the way the Earth moves around the Sun and the tilt of its axis.

FALLING BACK TO SUMMER Temperatures hit record levels Monday in southern New England, including 83 at Logan. That broke a record from 1920- over 100 years ago! Winds shift to the northeast and ...

Yet the more we trace our way through her work, the stronger she seems. This past August, The New York Sun offered “Blue Squills” as its Poem of the Day, a poem about seeing in nature a beauty so ...

In the poem, "Autumn (Resignation)," Humbert Wolfe reminds us to: "Listen! The wind is rising/and the air is wild with leaves/we have had our summer evenings/now for October eves!" Just a few steps… ...

When days become shorter and nights become longer, a process within the plant causes the cells around the base of the leaf, or petiole, to divide rapidly but not elongate.

Poem: Autumn A poem by an 11-year-old with ties to Rochester. Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay. By Elsa Theismann. September 06, 2022 at 12:00 AM. Share Share this article.

Somewhere, on a day like today or maybe even a morning, afternoon or night that is decked in very different colours, someone must have coined a name for that threshold, neither-here-nor-there moment, ...

For better or worse, we’re far likelier to know the chorus to “Rule Britannia” (which appeared as Poem of the Day this time last year) than we are to know its author’s name. Rather like the verses in ...