Local poets Charif Shanahan and Terra Betts curated a reading event for Steven Leyva’s “The Opposite of Cruelty.” ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

On Jan. 20, 2021, two weeks after the horrific attack on our Capitol by some of our fellow Americans, President Joe Biden was ...

Living during the early to mid-20th century, Simone Weil, a French philosopher, activist, and writer, was a religious mystic.

Every year on March 21, the world comes together to celebrate World Poetry Day, a day dedicated to honouring one of ...