As President Trump’s crackerjack cabinet settles in and unsettles any sentient American, we are not beholding a series of ...

Conan O’Brien received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the ...

to poetry, to progress, to all those things.” In 2025, politics have become the primary conversation about the Kennedy Center after Trump fired every person appointed by former President Biden.

There is no more apt time to remind us of the poem, “First They Came,” by Martin Niemoller. Today the administration is going after Venezuelans and Palestinians—tomorrow it can be any one of us.

In her new book, "I Am Maria," the child of the Kennedy family, broadcast journalist, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and – after the end of her marriage – a woman in search of herself offers an ...

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

These are their prepared remarks. I’ve been rather insistent on having an Inaugural Ceremony. Not because Poet Laureates in our peer cities have them. Not because I love a party (which I do).