Rich with metaphor, the poems explode on the page with the multiple narratives of motherhood, illness, pain and redemption. All of this set in a rainforest that is both mythic and vividly alive.

PA Humanities, the state granting partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, asked former Philadelphia poet laureate Yolanda Wisher to design a poetry teaching program for elementary ...

PA Humanities, as part of its 50th year celebration, brought a Rain Poetry project to three sites in Pittsburgh this spring. Students from. Log out Log in Register MyAccount SUBSCRIBE NEWSLETTERS.

Each should provide a month or two of happy surprises, every time it rains. "Once we get the funding, we are looking to do more poems, in more neighborhoods throughout Boston, throughout Greater ...

Was still migrant, a bird of uncertain passage. Paddy Bushe writes in Irish and English. He won The Irish Times Poetry Now Award for On A Turning Wing (Dedalus 2016). His collections include ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Among the unique projects created by PA Humanities, 'Rain Poetry' is now popping up in parks across Philadelphia. 11-year-old Coraline Owili-Eger and her ...

Donald Justice's Collected Poems, published less than two weeks after his death, is a slender volume for a life's work. At around 300 pages, it could easily be overlooked on a shelf beside the ...

Water-activated haiku poems are being installed in public spaces across Philadelphia this summer as part of the nonprofit PA Humanities' Rain Poetry project. The poems, which are revealed with a ...

The statewide literacy project Rain Poetry will have a reveal celebration from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 14 at Bottle Works in the Cambria City section of Johnstown. “I am really looking ... JOHNSTOWN, Pa.