SANTA CRUZ — If you truly think you shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree, a new poetry anthology might beg to disagree. “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands That Tend Them,” ...

“It was early summer when I moved into my new house, the primordial garden borders and stands of small fruit trees seen with pride from every window and glass door, and I had mixed feelings about the ...

OK. Let's slow down for a moment. ROSS GAY: I'm Ross Gay. TESS TAYLOR: I'm Tess Taylor. Ross is a poet, and he studies joy. GAY: (Laughter) Tess is a poet, and she studies many things, but poets is ...

For months, the human world has been plagued with upheaval — seen and unseen — but nature's world knows not of these things. The bees keep buzzing, hummingbirds flutter, and pollinators go about their ...

There is, in English poetry, a long tradition of gardening poems. Such poems find rich associations between the deliberate act of design, the organizing of nature, and the art of poetry. While Jeremy ...

I found this poem while I was working on one of my various projects for school. I really like it because it talks about the joys of being a child and the fact that you never can go back to how you ...

"We would like to bring the gardens back more as they were when Emily Dickinson lived here and cultivated them," Wald said. "We know the gardens were more extensive than they are now, and the family ...