'Push the boundaries': Literacy advocate Zell Miller III is Austin's first poet laureate
For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...
The Santa Barbara Independent6h
Poetry Connection | Get to know Santa Barbara’s Next Poet Laureate
There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...
Maude Latour is a poet, philosopher, pop sensation
Maude Latour doesn’t like to confine her music to a genre. But if the breadth of her body of work were captured by a movie, ...
Poetry from Daily Life: However you feel about poems, learning to observe is a good habit
Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...
The Paris Review8d
Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet?
Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with ...
San Diego Jewish World1d
Jewish Biography: David Hofstein, an Executed Soviet Poet
Hofstein wrote poetry from the age of nine in Hebrew, later also in Russian and Ukrainian, from 1909 in Yiddish. His first ...
World Poetry Day: In a post #MeToo world, feminist poetry is flourishing
Poetry and feminism have always been intertwined but in recent years, many new feminist and queer voices have emerged and ...