The so-called Message in a Bottle project invited people around the world to sign on to the poem. Some 2.6 million will now have their names stenciled onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft.

Poetry from Daily Life: Look, listen and write a poem for the world around you. Joseph Bruchac. Special to the News-Leader.

Primavera. By Louise Glück. Spring comes quickly: overnight the plum tree blossoms, the warm air fills with bird calls. In the plowed dirt, someone has drawn a picture of the sun with rays coming ...

Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

One special way to show your appreciation for your mom is with a heartfelt Mother's Day poem, like the 25 below. Some are from famous poets, like Edgar Allan Poe , while others are lesser-known.

Keeping our gaze on Jesus, we must learn to give a name and voice even to sadness, fear, anguish, indignation, bringing ...

Yashvi Javia and Helen Cox talk with Isavel Mendoza, the winner of the Poetry Out Loud national competition, to talk about ...

Our prima donna girl is back—but not in the way you’d expect. Widely known as Marina and the Diamonds or MARINA, Marina Lambrini Diamandis published her first collection of poems, Eat the World: A ...

Experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise from historic collections across China. The post Ancient Chinese poems reveal 1,400-year decline of iconic aquatic species ...

The poems date back nearly 2,000 years, spanning multiple dynasties. Since then, the Yangtze finless porpoise, which calls the Yangtze River its home, has lost more than half of its habitat.