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 ...

The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Winter Poetry Festival is a gathering for local artists to share their best, most personal and wackiest poems with the Madison community. This eight-week festival ...

Today is the shortest day of the year, also known as the winter solstice. The solstice marks the start of winter in astronomical terms, where the start of seasons is determined by the tilt of the ...

Notes on a journey in winter across a wild landscape and with only a fearsome green giant waiting for you… Simon Armitage thinks Sir Gawain is crossing the Wirral. A poem for this very day ...

What are you getting from this poem? PARINI: Well, first of all, let me say - you had a clip from "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" - Frost is really the great American poet of winter.

“Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop ...

wounded and resistant female protagonist” in Woman of Winter (Gallery, €15), her new version of The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare. Responding to the poem’s deep engagement “with how the ...

The Morecambe Poetry Festival is an annual celebration of poetry and spoken word, held in the coastal town of Morecambe, UK. Established to promote literary arts and community engagement ...