It’s Christmas time, a time of hope and light, a time to take a break from business and Washington, D.C. Here’s my favorite poem by Cecil Day Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and ...

Ahoy. The Christmas boat parades have finished for another season, and the only parade that I can see on my radar is for Friday. The Northwest’s traditional parade is the Christmas Ship Festival ...

DENMARK – Pauline Brown, an African American senior citizen author who resides in Denmark but has a P.O. box in Barnwell, is asking for donations to help with sending Christmas letters with her ...

A poem by a long-time Stewartville resident. ... here down on my knees, Please Lord don't take my Christmas from me. ... Send poems to [email protected] with the subject line "Poetry submission." ...

The “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in The Sentinel, a newspaper based in Troy, New York.An instant success, the poem was ...

This Christmas garden poem was written for this column more than 25 years ago. It is still the most requested encore of any column I have written, and, as a gift to my readers, I grant copyright ...

More than 10 Decembers have passed since Tom Gregory wrote a Christmas poem for his daughter, Madison. She was just a toddler at the time, but he recognized in her a creative streak he wanted to ...

I would complete my choice of what might be called “Christmas Day” poetry by moving to the late 20th century and the understated tension of R.S. Thomas’ “Hill Christmas” in which weather ...

When Rick Arnold of St. Louis, Missouri, wrote these words in December of 2007, he didn’t know that Christmas would be his last.

Some of my earlier Christmas poems were of a more “secular” nature. I did two take-offs of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas (actual title: A Visit from St. Nicholas).My first poem in 1996 ...