Elliott Bay Book Company hosted a reading co-sponsored by UW EarthLab and the Washington Sea Grant on Jan. 14 in celebration ...

Every year, the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park welcomes hundreds of young people to immerse themselves in the scientific wonders of America’s most ...

Every year, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden hosts an open call for “Casitas” to be built in their backcountry, the area of the garden where kids can touch plants, make art, learn about nature, ride a ...

There’s no better classroom than the wall-less wonders of woods and streams, of lake and stars. For students of Professor Robert Fanning’s English course, “Wonder and Wonder,” Beaver Island is the ...

Singer-songwriter Jess Martin and poet-naturalist Kim Hoff will host “Echoes of Nature/Echoes in Community,” a two-part performance featuring poetry and music inspired by local hikes, on Saturday, ...

SHEBOYGAN — Local nature poets will gather and share their work next weekend at the Maywood Ecology Center’s 12th annual Language of Nature Poetry Reading and Discussion. The poetry reading will begin ...

April is National Poetry Month. In Washington, it is also marked by a shedding of coats and a gorgeous display of cherry blossoms, magnolias and dogwood trees — nature, in full bloom. To celebrate, we ...

Ada Limón is constantly pouring back into the "little girl who wants to write poems and be free." For USA TODAY's The Essentials, she shared why surrendering to nature to necessary, why meditation and ...

Cycle one: Just looking. We must be careful / Ed Roberson -- Earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton -- Mountains of California, part I / Al Young -- Mountain road ends here / G.E. Patterson -- ...

On November 20 th it was a cool and dark evening in the CHC events hall. Chairs were filling up as chatter filled the room. They soon grew silent when Mari Castañeda walked to the podium to introduce ...

Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...