This month, I will cross the point of 1,000 ronka poems on this site. They don't exist in print form now, though I have pitched a manuscript to several publishers. Actually, I'm happy with them existing online and that some have also been done as podcasts. Those audiences are larger than any print version would probably ever reach. I have been writing these poems and posting them here…

The three dry months meant no floods. We made our own rain each evening for flowers and vegetables, top-coating the soil with a wet darker brown, but never deep-soaking enough to really change the …

As I wrote previously about King Arthur, as depicted in The Once and Future King, the novel does not explicitly depict Arthur’s death. Arthur's story ends with the Battle of Camlann, where he fights his traitorous nephew or son Mordred. He kills Mordred, but Mordred mortally wounds Arthur in return. Most of Arthur's knights are dead, and the kingdom of Camelot collapses.

Early Native Americans didn't use months like we do today with the Julian or Gregorian calendars. Instead, they kept track of time by watching the seasons and the phases of the Moon. Full Moon names date back to Native American tribes who lived in what is now the northern and eastern United States. Those tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon.

Walk through an art museum, browse a vintage poster collection, or visit a coffee shop decorated with retro prints, and chances are you've seen the work of Alphonse Mucha. Yet unlike artists such as Van Gogh, Monet, or Picasso, Mucha's name is often less familiar to the general public. His images, however, have become some of the most recognizable in the history of art.

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Poetry Find the New Yorker announcement here. The National Book Foundation today announced the Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry…

Death is a small part of life.A doorway, not the dwelling, the hushafter the poet's dark reading about it,shadows following you on a sunny day,when your ship's gone over the bar. I was working on a revision on an incomplete version of my poem when I took a break. I picked up a poetry anthology in the hope of being inspired and the page that fell open by chance (or was it by chance?) was Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar." Tennyson requested that it be included as the last poem in all editions of his works.

Photo by Stijn Dijkstra on Pexels.com It's fall - or it's spring - depending on where you are when you read this today. The Autumnal Equinox for 2026 will occur today, The Autumnal Equinox in 2026 arrives on Tuesday, September 22, at 8:04 P.M. EDT (5:04 P.M. PDT) in the Northern Hemisphere. To scientists, an equinox is either of two points on the celestial sphere where the ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect.

Poet and writer Annie Dillard has died at age 81. She is a writer I admired. Her non-fiction book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) had a profound impact on my views about observing nature and I have read it multiple times. It won the Pulitzer Prize. Her books are lyrical, philosophical, and blend nature, spirituality, memoir, and reflections on how to live and pay attention to the world.

Monet, Gare St Lazare, 1877 Artists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, and Alfred Sisley were classified as the early "Impressionists." They used looser brushwork to capture fleeting moments, depicting the effects of light and movement. As a group, they were frustrated by the exclusivity of the art establishment in Paris and decided to stage their own exhibition, calling themselves the Anonymous Cooperative Society of Artists.

The science channel Space Explainer explained ways that physics suggests time travel could work. That's not to say that any of the ways will ever work, but perhaps one will work one day. Their list includes: relativistic time dilationgravitational time dilation near-light-speed travelwormholesblack holes closed timelike curves. If you want to travel into the future…

Unexplored, uncharted, as all rivers once were, we travel down it carried by currentsthat seem to run faster in darkness. The overgrowth is thick. No visible horizon. Uncertainty keeps us afloat fo…

Twice a year, our planet hits a celestial sweet spot. On the day of the autumn equinox - next September 22 this year - Earth’s axial tilt of 23.5 degrees is positioned neither toward nor away from the sun. The terminator line—the border between day and night—cuts directly through the poles, giving nearly equal parts daylight and darkness across the globe.