While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.
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 ...
Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...
BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...
In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...
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 ...
The United States once championed democracy. Now it is retreating behind militarism, demagoguery and despotism.
You’ve exhibited around the world – including in New York, Venice and Hong Kong – but your father, the painter David Rankin, ...
The United States has fallen to its lowest-ever position, and Afghanistan is again ranked as the unhappiest country in the ...
El-Kurd argues his latest book is neither a manifesto nor a critique – but it is certainly an anguished testimony, a ...
Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...