Dear Readers: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover week. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the ...

Poet Adam Scheffler, an assistant professor at Wichita State, will open the 42nd Salina Spring Poetry Series on April 7 at Red Fern Booksellers.

Explore why spring's symbols like blossoms and birdsong inspire artists and poets worldwide, reflecting renewal, beauty, and ...

“Spring night four a.m.” from WAIT TILL I’M DEAD: UNCOLLECTED POEMS © 2016 by The Estate of Allen Ginsberg. Originally published in Villager, vol. 44, no. 20 ...

April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

I’m writing this column in the earliest days of another spring, and here’s a fine spring poem from Rose King’s book “Time and Peonies,” from Hummingbird Press. The poet lives in California. a man in a ...

bowing pines. Determined snow flakes fell, flocking Mother Nature in a fluffy, white gown. Another wink of winter’s snow. She glistens, spreading her soft blanket with a gentle whisper. “Not yet, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sandra Justice is an ex-cop, a single mom, a former member of the U.S. Air Force, a gardener, a cook, and when National Public Radio personality Garrison ...

Begun in 1996 to encourage the appreciation of poetry, National Poetry Month features a roster of poetry events and readings held all over the country at schools, libraries and bookstores. Its founder ...

Enchant children this Easter with delightful poems that celebrate the joy and wonder of the season. These charming verses are ...