It's almost here. You held out hope that it would never arrive, but that bitter season always finds a way to rear its ugly head once again. That's right, the first day of winter is fast approaching — ...

I've been thinking lately about what is only able to be said through poetry. How a poem can transform a moment into a feeling and make a memory come to life. Poetry has an incantatory effect; I read a ...

Winter Poetus by Favorite American Poets. With Illustrations. Boston : Fields, Osgood, & Co. A Child’s Dream of a Star. By CHARLES DICKENS. With Illustrations by ...

When I moved to California last year, I didn't think it was possible to miss the snow. Of all the natural phenomena, snow is pretty low on my list. Despite those first sparkling flakes, as someone who ...

Just as Sidman and Allen saw through the ominousness of night to find beauty and joy in the Newbery Honor–winning Dark Emperor, they now discover warmth, community, and wisdom in the dead of winter.

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day ...

Reading Maxine Kumin in quarantine solitude, I’ve found something familiar in the way little details come alive when larger, flashier things have fallen away. Kumin is known for quiet, observational ...

In a series of exquisitely blunt, elegiac poems for his mother, Carl Adamshick returns from her dying days to a changed world: “new calendar” — everything has altered forever. (Many poems in his ...

Jimmy Santiago Baca wrote the collection, "Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande" in 2004 after living on the banks of that river. Every morning, he ran through snow, rain and mud in a ritual that he ...