WEST SAND LAKE — Betty Murphy's West Sand Lake Elementary first-grade class stood in a row before their schoolmates Thursday afternoon, ready to recite by memory the 32-line poem they wrote. Murphy ...

Climbed any good trees lately? It had been a while since I'd sampled the freedom and the thrill of the high branches. Then, at a Huntsville Literary Association Sunday Salon last spring, I heard Carey ...

An anonymous poem written in memory of a tree brought down by Storm Amy has been welcomed by locals as a "lovely reminder" of the value of nature. The tree, which stood near the Victoria Avenue ...

Ruth “Uncle Ruthie” Buell, who lives in L.A.’s Pico-Robertson neighborhood, had a thought one day. Actually, the thoughts are always bubbling over with her, but this one was particularly inspired. Why ...

A MUCH loved tree which has carried an evocative poem for 169 years has toppled over after three centuries. The Poem Tree at Castle Hill in Wittenham Clumps, near Didcot, came down this week. The ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In the Bryant neighborhood of south Minneapolis, there's a tree that doesn't ask for much — just a little kindness and the willingness to connect. "Read a poem, write a poem, take a poem ...

When we ran “A Tragic Story” as the Sun’s Poem of the Day last spring — comic verses about a man who could not get his pigtail to hang in front, no matter how fast he twirled — we began with the ...