Looking for something to read in between the barbecues and fireworks? Try this mix of novels, short stories, poetry and more.

Teachers can have students create comics based on poems to better understand their themes and spark meaningful conversation.

Riley’s “Christmas Afterthought” is a short, humorous poem in which a little boy has a profound realization that Santa Claus must not have had anyone to bring him presents as a young child.

Christmas readings were given by Lydia Brandreth, Michael Gough and Howard Nixon. Christmas poems were provided by Rachel Williams, Katie Brown, Amanda Davies Groves and Colin Mills.

This poem is one of Eliot’s best “shorter” works and is one of his “Ariel Poems” from 1927, the same year as his conversion. In many ways the poem is about a person, in this case one of the Magi, who ...

FARGO — For more than 200 years, people have been enjoying the melodic rhyming and nostalgic memories associated with Clement C. Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." For almost half ...

So began a 1912 article in The New York Times, which went on to give a thumbnail history of “A Visit From St. Nicholas” — usually referred to these days as “The Night Before Christmas ...

'Twas the night before Christmas and all ‘cross the state The temperature had fallen to a muggy 78. *** And at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, well after dusk Not a creature was stirring, not even a Musk.

Proud Mother Nature, she made them all. Made some of them short and others quite tall. In green and in red, and even in gold, Skinny and round, wispy and bold. Some specimens bent and a few that ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy.

The poem tells the charming story of a father who witnesses St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus, on Christmas Eve. The “jolly old elf” arrives in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer and leaves behind ...

Christmas 1924 by Langston Hughes The Oxen by Thomas Hardy Little Tree by e.e. cummings Christmas Trees by Robert Frost ...