Every year, the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park welcomes hundreds of young people to immerse themselves in the scientific wonders of America’s most ...

Singer-songwriter Jess Martin and poet-naturalist Kim Hoff will host “Echoes of Nature/Echoes in Community,” a two-part performance featuring poetry and music inspired by local hikes, on Saturday, ...

Every year, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden hosts an open call for “Casitas” to be built in their backcountry, the area of the garden where kids can touch plants, make art, learn about nature, ride a ...

SHEBOYGAN — Local nature poets will gather and share their work next weekend at the Maywood Ecology Center’s 12th annual Language of Nature Poetry Reading and Discussion. The poetry reading will begin ...

There’s no better classroom than the wall-less wonders of woods and streams, of lake and stars. For students of Professor Robert Fanning’s English course, “Wonder and Wonder,” Beaver Island is the ...

“I mean that as an organizing principle,” says the U.S. poet laureate, who has edited a new anthology of nature poetry called “You Are Here,” “and also as a slight against prose.” Credit...Rebecca ...

April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom. To celebrate, we ...

Whether as metaphors, decorations or (literal) forces of nature, clouds are everywhere in poetry. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal ...

Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

On November 20 th it was a cool and dark evening in the CHC events hall. Chairs were filling up as chatter filled the room. They soon grew silent when Mari Castañeda walked to the podium to introduce ...

Poets frequently pay homage to nature — whether it be to the single sprouting cherry blossom or the blade of grass that bends toward the sun. Words, much like nature, glisten with the beauty and ...