Jul. 7—As spring showers slowly leave the forecast and make way for clear, warm days this month, the North Coast is a little closer to the happy days of summer. As we dust off our outdoor gear and ...

Despite the cold weather in the Northeast, summer is just around the corner, and as the sunny days have finally begun to roll in, I've used the sunshine as an opportunity to read great poetry about ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. Last year, as ...

In her poem, "Visiting My Parents in Summer," Tishani Doshi writes about returning to her childhood bedroom, where she experiences it being preserved just as she left it as a teenager. Hey, we're not ...

This month, we'll be hearing from poets about what summer evokes for them. Our first poet is Sandra Beasley, whose latest collection is: I Was the Jukebox: Poems. All this month we are listening to ...

Summertime doesn't normally bring to mind periods of depression and anxiety, so when you get the blues during the hottest time of the year, it can throw you for a loop. Not to worry, though. I've ...

All this summer on MORNING EDITION, we've been asking poets to read work that evokes this season. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This next poem is by Paul Laurence Dunbar. He was an African-American poet who ...

As part of its summer fare, Apples 4 the Teacher features famous poets such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry W. Longfellow, and Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr. For craft ideas, summer coloring pages, ...

The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival is now more than half way through its eighth season, and the aspects that have made it a culture must for lots of Connecticut poetry lovers are holding true. It’s not ...

The title of this poem subverts expectations right away. After all, we associate summer with pleasure: vacations, the beach, sunshine. Each line operates in the declarative. Many lines end with a ...

When “A Child’s Garden of Verses” appeared in 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was already failing, as the ups and downs of his consumption would lead to his death from a stroke at age 44. The ...

Hey, we're not quite done with summer, which means we're not quite done with talking with poets on this program about what summer means to them. Tishani Doshi wrote a poem called "Visiting My Parents ...