Dear Abby: For years, I used to shoot birds-just for sport. I am enclosing the poem that convinced me to give up that sport. Some people may think the poem is ”corny,” but it had a powerful effect on ...

The first of the American Romantics, author of such poems as “Thanatopsis” and “March,” which appeared as the Sun’s Poem of the Day on the second of that month this year, William Cullen Bryant ...

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of "The Verging Cities" (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015). She teaches at Juan Diego Catholic High School and lives in Salt Lake City. About The Academy of ...

A moment on a sidewalk becomes a koan, a fragment bearing a mysterious pronoun. Who needs it more: the person who tells it or the person who receives? Is it gift or intrusion? Repeating in memory the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Small Bird Poem Fly from hideout to hideout, dodge gentle dangers, and watch your poem change with each choice. small bird poem is a short, interactive ...

When I say that Pam Ayres ought to be the Oxford Professor of Poetry, even the Poet Laureate, I am not being facetious. Those who thinks she writes doggerel need to think twice. Like Victoria Wood, or ...

Terry Ann Carter tried to express the smallest amount of warmth on a cold winter day in For the White Bird.ADRIAN LAM The Times Colonist Solstice Poetry series concludes today with a poem from Terry ...

Lyn Gallacher takes us through the Bird's journey and the arguments as they range from roadkill to romance, and you'll hear a number of voices commenting on the poem, including the author Clive James.