Notes on a journey in winter across a wild landscape ... Armitage thinks Sir Gawain is crossing the Wirral. A poem for this very day, the solstice, the shortest day, what John Donne called the ...

Our myths turn long nights into evergreen cut on grocery store parking lots, a continent away from thousands of reindeer starving as the Arctic ice dissolves. Only one star guides the way out to ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured ... it has become a winter solstice holiday as well, celebrated ...

Saturday marks the shortest day of the year and the official start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. NPR has compiled plenty of expert tips for celebrating the solstice and weathering winter.