Madison Square Park's NASA moon tree inspired a poem by New York's state poet, blending space history, public art and urban ...

Joe and Vicki Douglas are pictured next to their Poet Tree on April 13. After receiving inspiration from other public poetry posts, Joe Douglas created the box, which rests on the front of a maple ...

This upcoming weekend continues a celebration of Gram Parsons as well as innovative program of Poetry workshops in the Joshua Tree National Park led by poet Jodie Hollander. Fifty years ago, Gram ...

Schoolchildren, including this columnist decades ago, were taught a twelve-line lyric poem of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse, entitled, Trees, that many centenarians and nonagenarians ...

While it may be April Fools’ Day, today also marks the start of National Poetry Month. (No fooling.) So we’ve been asking educators on Twitter to share the classroom activities and resources they use ...

Afternoon sunshine twinkles off the Charles River’s tiny blue waves and warms the grass on its shores. Beneath the nearby trees, students lay out on towels with their laptops and textbooks. Some ...

“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in 1913 from a bedroom window looking out upon a winding network of fall colors in rural New Jersey. “Trees” is a poem ...