San Diego has named Paola Capó-García as its third Poet Laureate since the program began in 2020. A former journalist and ...

Poet Lisken Van Pelt Dus explores themes of identity, displacement and belonging in her new collection, "How Many Hands to ...

Charles Cutler of Hawley first became fascinated by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa in the early 1960s when Cutler was in ...

Maker and developer Rootkid is using a Raspberry Pi Zero to power an old phone, giving it the ability to read poems to you when you lift the receiver.

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

Paola Capó-García says she hopes to create original and inclusive works intended to engage San Diegans through poetry, inspire critical thinking, and foster deeper community connections.

Next week, Welcome will be hosting a week-long spoken word poetry residency. He’ll be going to Edgewater, Ocoee, and Oak ...

Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...

Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, ...

Let me begin this essay with an open confession – by “open confession” I mean my saying it loud here about writing or speaking about ...

I wanted Midwestern prairies, but we moved to his hometown on the West Coast. He wooed me and wanted L.A. to seduce me. Would ...