Spring break has officially dawned for most high school students throughout the Yakima Valley, barely more than two weeks after the spring season itself officially broke on the calendar.

Harper’s upbeat poem celebrates spring, the beauty of nature, and the joy of renewal. In contrast to many of her poems that address the social and political issues of her time, this one conveys a ...

The participants of the event praised the creative talent of poets and applauded their poems. Poets depicted the beauty of spring and called for peace, prosperity, progress, unity and harmony in ...