You can’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes you can judge a writer’s standing by it. My 1990s-era paperback edition of “The Portable Dorothy Parker” shows the poet, critic, playwright and ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

When I was a ninth-grader growing up in Encanto, I used to struggle with poems that just wouldn’t work out. After a whole day ...

In Trump, Evangelicals have found a candidate who allows to foment hate, all in the name of God, writes Donovan McAbee.

The event, from Friday through Sunday, is hosted and organized by the Conspiracy of Beards, a San Francisco men's choir specializing in performing Cohen's music. The Beards will perform, as will ...

The Four Corners Writers will finish judging the entries they received for their first anthology “Four Corner’s Voices” in ...

The poem covers her struggles against racism, including not being allowed to go to the premiere of “Gone With the Wind,” not ...

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...

Two artists who befriended during a writers retreat in Okoboji created a film about sharing poetry as a Black artist.

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In Forest of Noise, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha explores the pain, loss, and struggle of life in Gaza, while holding onto ...

The poem covers her struggles against racism, including not being allowed to go to the premiere of “Gone With the Wind,” not being allowed to be buried in Hollywood, and more. Yet McDaniel met ...