When no signs of life were left, university officials took the “last resort” and decided to remove the dead tree on May 4.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

Sylvia Plath lived a tragically short life, but her legacy looms large. During her lifetime, she published just one poetry collection and one novel ... “I saw my life branching out before me like the ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

This edition, however, contains works by the likes of Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath ... cyclical representation of poetry evokes the feeling of a tree sprouting and forming its fantastic ...

Into January By Amarylis Douglas It comes to almost a monochrome the island, off-season. We walk back home from the Chop into the snow’s beginnings. Dry leaves spin mischief inside the log ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...