Spring is finally on its way to Cambridge, but before the magnolias bloom, we must endure the inevitable floods of Spring rain. If you find yourself stuck indoors this week, there’s no better ...

Even if the Bay Area weather is cold and rainy, three slim books serve as charming harbingers of the coming season. Thirty short poems quietly generate the promise of ...

Some of the best poets of spring are masters of the minor key. So it's no surprise that the famously dour Philip Larkin wrote two of the finest... Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also ...

Springtime — opening the senses to your experiences at Miami University — was the theme of this year’s social media poetry contest during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month.

An old saying has it that a picture is worth a thousand words. Really, though, a picture is worth just a few words, if they are the right words. Poets have the knack. They can use few words to create ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...