Oakland voters have a provocative choice in next month's special election for mayor, as longtime former Rep. Barbara Lee ...

Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to ...

Since getting into poetry as a teenager, Masaki Takahashi has been performing with a style that bridges the gap between ...

San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin has been awarded Yale University’s prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. The $175,000 literary award aims to provide writers the financial means to focus ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

"I don't think that there's any man today, present today, that has the kind of moral authority or spiritual strength,'' ...

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on roll calls from recent debate on the House rules. There were no ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...

The last day to see "The American Sunrise: Indigenous Art" exhibit at Crystal Bridges is Sunday, March 23. Starting at 11 a.m. at the Momentary on Sunday, March 23, there's a screening of three films ...

If someone asks me, ‘Why do you write?’ my answer is that it’s my job to discover the metaphors with which the universe ...

Local media often refers to Lewis Pitts as a retired civil rights attorney. Pitts did not retire; in 2014, he resigned in ...

A U.S Army veteran who had his first poem published at age six was on hand Tuesday afternoon to read from his published works ...