Here in April, celebrated annually as National Poetry Month, I’ve been wondering: Is there a truly great poem about the Mississippi River? The question first came to mind last December when a ...

fleeing Pap’s shack, lighting out for the river. There, on the bank, mud-footed as an otter, simply slip through the surface. See? Not a ripple. the leaving is easy. Imagine a doorway. Now, remove ...

If you’d like to see what the Clark Fork River is like to a seventh grader, start at the beginning. “I want to be alone in this place,” according to one student in Steven Strothman’s ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this ...

The poem “Streets of Fall River” by Al Rocheleau, a poet born and raised in Fall River, will be read. “It’s really lovely, with all kinds of memories,” Rego noted about Rocheleau’s poem.

New York Times bestselling author and former South Carolina poet laureate Marjory Wentworth releases a new poetry book entitled “One River, One Boat" on Aug.12.

The University of Connecticut’s creative writing program hosted their second Long River Reading Series (LRRS) event of the year on Wednesday, Nov. 13, ... She filled in for Charlotte Ungar, a ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

A team of scientists in China turned to an unusual source to track the population of the Yangtze River’s finless porpoises: ancient poems. The writings samples written over the past 1,400 years ...