Joe and Vicki Douglas are pictured next to their Poet Tree on April 13. After receiving inspiration from other public poetry posts, Joe Douglas created the box, which rests on the front of a maple ...

This upcoming weekend continues a celebration of Gram Parsons as well as innovative program of Poetry workshops in the Joshua Tree National Park led by poet Jodie Hollander. Fifty years ago, Gram ...

While it may be April Fools’ Day, today also marks the start of National Poetry Month. (No fooling.) So we’ve been asking educators on Twitter to share the classroom activities and resources they use ...

Joyce Kilmer wrote one of the most famous%2C most beloved%2C most parodied poems His ode to trees is known by almost everyone%2C critic said But rote memorization of poetry is on the way out in ...

We’ve featured several other poems by Bruce Guernsey, who lives in Illinois and Maine. But here he is visiting Gettysburg and giving us a poem for Memorial Day. “Naming the Trees” is forthcoming in ...