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

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...

Announcing the Eighth Annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest! How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can journalism and poetry help us ...

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. I often hear from peers and students that ...

International Women’s Day Poems 2025 is a global event celebrated every year on March 8 to celebrate the love and contributions of women in our lives. Prep your children with these beautiful short ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

But in many other states, truth-in-sentencing laws and other similar laws that impose longer sentences are making a comeback, particularly for violent crimes. These laws have real effects on real ...

Director Paul Feig's Amazon follow-up to his 2018 original is set to start streaming this spring. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Premiering March 7 as the opening title for the ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...