Spring Festival, also known as Lunar New Year, is one of the most anticipated, large-scale and celebratory seasons in Chinese culture. Around this time each year, families and loved ones gather no ...

However, the ways they have employed to express their perception of spring are different from each other in each period. In a recent interview with the Tehran Times, Rashid Kakavand, a professor of ...

While Nowruz marks the renewal of life and the rebirth of nature, poetry has long been a profound vessel for expressing these very themes—growth, transformation, and the passage of time. This year, ...

In Spencer Reece’s poem “Ayer,” from his new collection, Acts, the priest-poet talks about his bishop, who “had spent the day visiting churches/ and a gypsy that was begging for the host.” The worth ...

There are some big retrospectives (Bidart, Dove, Rich) on the slate this spring; mother (Notley) and son (Berrigan) drop new books; and one could do worse than just picking up anything from Copper ...

The Howe Writing Center's annual poetry contest, “Colors,” invited Miami writers to explore the multiple ways colors intersect with their lives. Presented with an array of colors, writers distilled ...

If you're having a rough go of it this spring, don't worry. I've got 11 poetry collections to read that will reflect your inner world and open you up to a whole new outer world. These books are some ...

Spring break has officially dawned for most high school students throughout the Yakima Valley, barely more than two weeks after the spring season itself officially broke on the calendar. This time of ...

The old saying “April showers bring May flowers” seems to have come from a poem written nearly 500 years ago. Sometime in the mid-1500s, English poet Thomas Tusser published “A Hundred Good Points of ...

Two friends of mine, very different ages and backgrounds, have shared the same spring ritual with me. They eat the first beech leaves to unfold in spring. I had never actually noticed, until they ...