Read the full poem here.. 5. “Winter Slitude” by Matsuo Basho. Winter solitude in a world of one color the sound of wind. Short and sweet! The great thing about poetry, and especially the ...

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.

Four poems about snow and ice (all free online) Updated: Feb. 09, ... Snow, delicate snow, that falls with such lightness. on the head, on the feelings, come and cover over the sadness.

People walk past an illuminated Christmas tree in front of St. Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower at Red Square in Moscow, Russia Dec. 17, 2016. Reuters On a cold, wintry night ...

Director of the Classics Institute at Dakota State University, he has written over 800 essays, poems, reviews, and short stories in publications from the Atlantic to the Washington Post. His poetry ...

Kevin Brophy’s new collection of poems, An Inventory of Longing, is a beautiful publication from Victoria’s Whitmore Press. Brophy is a Melbourne-based author with a significant career as a poet, ...

as a last resort. but most of the women. were a million years old (You don’t often get poets who dabble in earth science humor.) Collins explained about why he’s fascinated with short poems.

Such short stories as “The Queen of Spades” and “The Shot” get mentioned, along with the dramas “The Stone Guest” and “Mozart and Salieri ... In the old American classic, John Greenleaf Whittier’s ...