Raised in an artistic family, Joseph loved poetry and hoped to pursue a career in the arts like his mother, a pianist, and his father, a painter and writer. Though he never became a fine artist ...

Joseph wrote his poem about trees in winter. You could write about trees in a different season or something else that links to the season your poem is based on. For example: Autumn leaves float down.

Joseph Bottum is the Poetry Editor of the Sun. Australia Day has been a source of contention for the implied assumption that until 1788, Australia was a blank slate of a continent, empty and unpeopled ...