Mary Ruefle's careful, measured sentences sound as if they were written by a thousand-year-old person who is still genuinely curious about the world. All of it. Trees. Crumbs. Doors. The all-consuming ...

Students at Echo High School were thinking about colors Thursday afternoon when Oregons poet laureate came for a visit. Paulann Petersen taught the students of Mike Herizas English class about imagery ...

in a simple and powerful way, and thereby commandeer legs and wings to carry their pollen. Flowering species quickly dominated the plant kingdom. Today 90 percent of plant species are angiosperms. We ...

Pulitzer winner and former poet laureate Smith (Wade in the Water) returns with an incisive collection of poems from her four books as well as 18 new poems that reproach ignorance and denial while ...