True enough, and I’d also add that rivers, with their complicated currents and frequent twists, are very much like poems, which often work on many levels and take surprising turns.

Scott suggests that it is “sad, given all our poems about rivers running down to the sea, that the Colorado was prevented from achieving its destiny”. The hydrologist has no time for such ...

World Rivers Day Theme 2024. The theme for World Rivers Day 2024 is 'Waterways for a Sustainable Future.' This highlights the vital role rivers play in supporting our ecosystems, economies and c ...

Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems Jim Harrison. Clark City Press, $13.95 (76pp) ISBN 978-0-944439-10-4 ...

Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers. Sian Northey (ed), Ness Owen (ed) This second bilingual Welsh-English poetry anthology from Arachne Press collects 50 original poems by Welsh poets, ...

Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years. The porpoise is critically endangered.