Born in Northampton, England, in 1612, Anne Bradstreet and her prominent Puritan family emigrated to America and settled in Massachusetts. Bradstreet’s poetry is a snapshot of politics ...

Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and to help you find meaning and make sense of ...

Marwell’s captivating giraffe calf has officially been named. Ruby, one of the female giraffes, went into labour on August 21 ...

The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis ... we stress the first syllable more strongly; in words like ‘giraffe’ or ‘suspend’ it is the second syllable. Longer words like ...

“It began with me having very outlandish ideas,” she recently recalled. “At one point, I thought we should rent a plane, and put poetry on little native seed packets that would fly out of the plane ...

Keeping his camera steady in the moving vehicle, Jose tracked the giraffe as it disappeared behind the giant pillars of Kenya's new Standard Gauge Railway. The grey concrete blocks dwarf nature's ...

This figure of reeling gave into the poem’s circuitry as a whole—the way it shorts out as if its webbing could open to reveal ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

The giraffe is the tallest terrestrial mammal in the world. The males stand about 5m tall - as high as a single-story house - and the females are just a little shorter. The giraffe has an incredibly ...

But these tallest of all land mammals are in the midst of a silent extinction. Africa's giraffe population has dropped by almost 40 percent in the past 30 years, dwindling to just more than 97,000 ...

Time was running out for Asiwa, a Rothschild’s giraffe in western Kenya. For years, she and seven other giraffes had been living on a peninsula that reached out into Lake Baringo. But rising ...