Books & the Arts / In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits. Nate ...

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

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

From indigenous cultures to Catholic traditions and global influence, the most popular Brazilian baby names find inspiration ...

Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has said slavery is not yet dead but rife on the African continent. Soyinka made this ...

Juan Felipe Herrera In celebration of National Poetry Month and the Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home initiative, Santa ...

César Chávez passed away on April 23, 1993, in San Luis, Arizona. His legacy is a symbol of the fight for civil and labor ...

Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.

In honor of April being National Poetry Month, the Watsonville Public Library will be hosting a reading and panel discussion ...

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

Immigration officials transported 238 Venezuelan men from the United States to a notorious maximum security prison in El ...

The North/South Chamber Orchestra will continue its 45th season on Thursday evening, March 27, 2025, with a free-admission ...