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.

Atmospheric rivers are at fault in more than 80 percent of flooding across the West. On average these storms cause $1 billion in damage each year. A look at Google Trends, ...

Appreciating poetry doesn't have to take a lot of time. As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life.

But you don’t have to get onstage, much less visit New York, to find poems that greet the New Year. Other than Burns’s song, the most famous (and the most pessimistic) poem in English to do so ...

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 ...

Readers’ favorite poems of travel: “Song of the Open Road ” by Walt Whitman is in various collections such as “Selected Poems by Walt Whitman” (Dover Thrift Editions, 1991). Full text at ...

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