Earth Poetry

Living on Earth

William Wordsworth wrote that poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility. Poet Natasha Trethewey opens the door to a memory of her mother, in her poem “Liman.” And poet Ross Gay celebrates the redbud tree.

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