And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...

A love letter about and to UCSB's College of Creative Studies, my home away from home. Other names include CCS and "the UC's ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of hardship: the Lord will ...

Although most of her poems are short, they are terse and chewy. They do not lend themselves to skimming, so I can never read more than two or three ... Presbyterians, letters that report deaths ...

Then the fire last month destroyed nearly everything inside the house: the handwritten letters from Ms. Edmiston ... in her temporary home in Santa Monica, two cookie jars remain.

FOR THE EARS Chatter’s Premiere Plays Against Typeface The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. We’ve all seen that sentence hundreds, if not thousands, of times, but why? It’s not the content, ...

Scott Brocato talks with New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who will read from her work Friday night at NMSU.

I’ve attended two in one week, in Santa Monica, California ... He loved to recite the poem, “Who Has Seen the Wind?” They were training to be educators, and both made a mark.

A month after his death, Trinity enrolled three women students, becoming the first of the historic universities of Ireland and Britain to admit women, in 1904. (Other universities had opened their ...

Ross Macdonald’s “The Underground Man” is exquisitely attuned to the Californian landscape—how it rises, falls, smells, and, ...

At this point, Mr. Stern recalled, his poems turned nonlinear ... Mr. Stern recalled receiving the letter as “part of a stash of about two and a half feet of books and manuscripts that ...

Now comes Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Homer’s other epic poem, “The Odyssey ... It feels like the play spends the subsequent two acts trying to recover from that botched beginning.