The resulting collection is wide-ranging; it includes anxious poems about climate change and illness alongside meditations on the food chain and giraffes, a riff on John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” ...

The Abilene Zoo has lost a member of their herd Wednesday with the death of their newest baby giraffe, Zahara. The baby, born ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. At 14 to 19 feet tall, giraffes tower over the entire animal kingdom. But their iconic height, which evolved over ...

Known for their 6-foot-long necks, distinctive patterning and long eyelashes, giraffes have always captured the human imagination. These amazing African animals have the highest blood pressure among ...

A beloved giraffe mascot is back at its rightful home at Different Stroke Motorsports in Manhattan after going missing for almost a week.According to bookkeeper ...

The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis ... we stress the first syllable more strongly; in words like ‘giraffe’ or ‘suspend’ it is the second syllable. Longer words like ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

Mort's collection "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and ...

Time was running out for Asiwa, a Rothschild’s giraffe in western Kenya. For years, she and seven other giraffes had been living on a peninsula that reached out into Lake Baringo. But rising ...

Jordan Tarver has spent seven years covering mortgage, personal loan and business loan content for leading financial publications such as Forbes Advisor. He blends knowledge from his bachelor's ...