On the brink of the 19th century, in the Scottish town of Dumfries, the poet Robert Burns wrote: “the honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor / Is king o’ men for a’ that.” Two centuries later, and about 100 ...

HILLTOWN — Pearl S. Buck International has been selected by PA Humanities as a recipient of the first-ever Rain Poetry Grants, one of only 10 youth-serving organizations from across Pennsylvania ...

With thick strokes of ink the sky fills with rain. Pretending to run for cover I secretly pray for more rain. Over the echo of the water, I hear a voice saying my name. No one in the city moves under ...

W. S. Merwin, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, reads his poem “Rain Light” from his home in Hawaii. You can find the text of the poem below. It was at our second meeting, in New York for an interview in ...

Young Houston poets have hidden a series of poems around Buffalo Bayou Park for National Poetry Month. Called "Rain Poems," they're written in an invisible paint that only becomes visible when it's ...

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Now you don’t see them - now you do! Through the rainy months of Columbia you might have noticed something popping up beneath your feet on the way to work, school or just grabbing ...

It was a rough evening outside but a warm feeling within. Lynn and I were with fellows and gals passing out food outside a closed church in Norfolk’s Park Place. The rain came down but the smiles ...