China is the homeland of the peony, and Luoyang's cultivation of these flowers dates back to the Sui Dynasty (581-618). By ...

Haiku: A celebration of fleeting moments, connecting artist and reader through controlled beauty and interpretation.

The following are the winning poems from the 2025 Nature in Verse Poetry Contest, held by Seymour Library in partnership with ...

And fitting choice words onto a cardboard scrap, she reflected, is not unlike crafting a haiku — the three-line poem traditionally written in a five-, seven-, five-syllable structure.

Mourning Cotton Flowers is An X-Berg Poem that stems from the idea of the district being a home for many who have been forced to leave their countries, for the homeless who look for shelter in the ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard,” by Larry Levis, and his own poem “The Shore.” The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s ...

Brennan sought solace from string music by an Austrian composer. Junaid Ahmed Ahangar shivered in Srinagar, Kashmir. Robin ...