Much of Mark Wunderlich’s decidedly sincere and dexterous new book The Earth Avails derives, as well as extrapolates from a little leather volume of common prayers, a treasury of highly particular, ...

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 ...

In 22 accessible free-verse poems, Sidman (The Girl Who Drew Butterflies) addresses Earth as a living being, marveling at its grandeur (“Earth,/ How can we ever understand/ your bigness?/ Our ...

Since the origins of poetry itself, many of literature’s greatest poets have paid homage to nature with their words. From a single bending blade of grass to the starry expanse of the night sky, and ...

EARTH upon earth hath woefully wrought; Now earth bringeth earth to nought; For earth on earth hath sought How earth to ruin be brought. Earth sendeth on earth the dearth Of exquisite youth and mirth, ...

Philip C. Kolin is that rare thing: a formidable scholar of literature who is also a poet. His poetry reveals another trait that’s rare in contemporary literature: intense integration of his strong ...

Ansel Elkin’s powerful poem, “Autobiography of Eve,” opens this anthology and inspires its title, championing a triumphant heroine “wearing nothing but snakeskin boots,” who proclaims, “Let it be ...

Joyce Sidman’s keen eye for the natural world informs her many books of poetry. Her latest, “Hello, Earth!,” is framed as a conversation between a curious person and the planet itself, and it explores ...