In the title poem of his latest collection, “Meet Me at the Lighthouse,” Dana Gioia (b. 1950) turns his deep feeling for Los Angeles, the city of his birth, to a memento mori — a contemplation of the ...

If you feel threatened in a park, please report it to 911.” Chinman has been doing his poetry work in the park for three years, and noticed the street harassers starting about a year ago.

Jack Prelutsky, a well-known children's poet and editor of kids poetry collections, has written poems based on Camille Saint-Saens's "The Carnival of Animals." He will read the poems when the ...

I was enchanted to find a park sign filled with poetry rather than the usual mishmash of information, rules, and thinly veiled threats. And such doting poetry: the park, the sign implied, had not ...

One part of You Are Here is poetry in the parks, bringing classic nature poems by past writers into the natural world itself. Ada Limon: One, two, three, poetry.