The artist creates a dynamic conversation between the museum’s historic art and architecture and the fluidity of contemporary ...

Sow your opium poppies - used to make medical painkillers including morphine, codeine and oxycodone, as well as illegal ...

It's the final week of May. On this week's episode of Something I Heard, Tomás Baiza shares one of his own poems, titled: "Red Dye No. 40." ...

Since ancient times, poppies have been used for a variety of purposes and given a variety of symbolic meanings. Red and white ...

The red poppy, also called the Remembrance Poppy, has been a symbol of the soldiers we lost in World War I, from 1914 to 1918.

Riverhead students honor fallen soldiers with over 1,000 handmade ceramic poppies at Calverton National Cemetery for Memorial Day.

The USAA Poppy Wall of Honor returns to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to recognize 600,000 fallen heroes with a powerful Memorial Day tribute.

The red poppy's symbolism originated during World War I, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields" written by John McCrae. As Michigan residents honor fallen military personnel over Memorial Day ...

red flower on a lapel — especially on Friday. A Canadian physician serving in the war penned the short poem that inspired the Memorial Day connection to the poppy. An American professor wrote ...

to write a poem with words that still resonate with us today. Poppies grow well in the Midwest and often by now are showing their colors. The red poppy, called the Flanders poppy, is just one of ...

The practice of wearing red poppy pins traces its origins back to 1921. The symbol stems from the poem In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, which powerfully captures the imagery of poppies growing ...

It’s said that McCrae, a poet and physician, was sitting on the back of a field ambulance overlooking a mass field of graves when he noticed red poppies growing. McCrae tossed the poem onto the ...