Japan’s official cherry blossom spotters on Monday confirmed the first blooming of the country’s favorite flower, declaring ...

Gene Kahane reflects on five years of posting poems on trees in Alameda, "I’m writing this to say farewell to the five trees ...

Three violins dedicated to Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves were among a collection of stringed instruments ...

This might be holding a glassy marble in my hand, watching the whirling spokes of a bicycle, staring at a starfish, a heart-shaped rock, a penny on the sidewalk, a kite caught in a tree.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in ...

The second solo exhibition by Cypriot artist Evagoras Karageorgis will open this week, running until April 15, the Through ...

He was like the playful boy described in the lovely poem “Birches” (1915), bending tree branches beyond recognition, then letting them snap back to their natural state, all for his own amusement.

Achal Mishra’s documentary on writer Vinod Kumar Shukla is a vivid portrait of a compulsive creator in his natural habitat ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...