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 ...

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

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

Production maximizes power of Puccini's music and drama — filling out characters, heightening emotions, enhancing humor and ...

What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

A woman of many talents and never ending passion for life, Pratibha Panghal, 64, has lived life in the fast lane. A retired teacher, but a very active ‘liver’ (remember the famous Orry term ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of Else Lasker-Schüler's death, this online format is dedicated to the life and work of the poet and draughtswoman, focusing on her time in exile in Israel. As a Kleist ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

The unveiling of DeepSeek R1 — a cutting-edge AI model with open weights but not fully open-source — by the Chinese firm DeepSeek has sparked a significant reaction across the global ...

Renowned Gujarati poet and essayist Anil Joshi, known for his works such as Kadach and Statue, and for returning his 1990 Sahitya Akademi award to protest attacks on literary writers in 2015, passed ...