Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As autumn sleds into winter, winners of the Cape Cod Times Poetry Contest all contain a sense of departure ― even a touch of ...

As part of a series of seasonal conversations and poetry, Todd Moe spoke with Vermont poet David Crews about his poems and their connections to... Oct 18, 2023 — As part of a series of seasonal ...

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) is the kind of poet who grows on the reader the more she is read. A native of St. Louis, she lived much of her adult life in New York before her suicide at age 49. From her ...

For Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the road that began at age twenty led inexorably to the consolations of wombats, whiskey, chloral, and the culmination of the grave. From our vantage point, this poem falls ...

Elsa Theismann is an 11 year old in 5th grade. Her parents are Mayo High School graduates and her grandparents are long-time Rochester residents. Her poem Autumn was recently chosen for inclusion in ...

"The rain it raineth every day" is the refrain of Feste's final song in Twelfth Night. In the midst of the play's courtly intrigues and tangled love affairs, Feste is an enigmatic, melancholy Fool, ...

Keats’s famous ode speaks across time and space to a 21st-century Sri Lankan, whose turbulent history catches on its mellow mood Autumn (after John Keats) The fallen yellow leaves now oftener flare ...

Here, for this season of school and football–and also of terror–is Rosanna Warren's poem, "Child's Room in Autumn:" The scene is about order, the maple tree a conflagration trapped in the rectangle of ...

May Sarton was a novelist and an avid keeper of journals, but she considered herself a poet above all else. Novels and journals, she said in 1983, are concerned with growth over time, but “the poem is ...