is accepting poems for the 2nd annual children’s pet-poetry contest, part of their Pets Add Life campaign. Third, fourth and fifth-grade students are invited to write an original poem about their pets ...
Mary Oliver has spent most of her life with a mind ripe with poems and with at least one steadfast dog by her side. It seems fitting then that her latest collection revels in the carrying on of dogs. ...
‘The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs,’ said former French president Charles de Gaulle, while Charles Dickens wrote ‘What greater gift than the love of a cat.’ Did you know ...
April marks the 13th anniversary of National Poetry Month. To help celebrate, budding Emily Dickinsons and Edgar Allan Poes are encouraged to participate in the second annual "Paws for Poetry" Contest ...
One thing that's nice about having pets, they give you unconditional love. But how might they think about you if they could speak for themselves? Poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander is asking you to ...
Magdalena Zurawski’s intrepid use of caesura — a pause in a line of poetry — reinforces the theme of disciplined attention in “[Dog Is a Way of Thinking].” The poem’s frequent midline interruptions of ...