Much of Mark Wunderlich’s decidedly sincere and dexterous new book The Earth Avails derives, as well as extrapolates from a little leather volume of common prayers, a treasury of highly particular, ...

Poets frequently pay homage to nature — whether it be to the single sprouting cherry blossom or the blade of grass that bends toward the sun. Words, much like nature, glisten with the beauty and ...

Maynard Earth Day 2020 was planned for May 3, but was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, thanks to the efforts of Maynard High School’s Douglas Luther, Lawrence Schultz and other ...

In 22 accessible free-verse poems, Sidman (The Girl Who Drew Butterflies) addresses Earth as a living being, marveling at its grandeur (“Earth,/ How can we ever understand/ your bigness?/ Our ...

We’re all familiar with Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem in which she implores us to be brave enough to be the light. Ms. Gorman made history again by reciting a new poem at the Super Bowl. She ...

For 75 years now, Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) has been threatening to break back though to the position he held when, in 1907, he became the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize — acknowledged as a ...

EARTH upon earth hath woefully wrought; Now earth bringeth earth to nought; For earth on earth hath sought How earth to ruin be brought. Earth sendeth on earth the dearth Of exquisite youth and mirth, ...