The celebrated poet and longtime Santa Cruz resident Ellen Bass is the latest in a long list of poetry luminaries to speak at ...

Part 2 of our in-depth interview with Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha, whose latest book of poetry is Forest of Noise.

San Diego's poet laureate shares his vision for a poetry-filled future, his latest community initiatives and the importance ...

Van Morrison had proven he could do the whole ethereal tone poem type of song, but he wanted to make a play for the radio. He had settled down somewhat in his personal life, but he imagined a ...

Nick Gravenites helped Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg develop modern blues rock, but much of his best-known work was for other people.

Sarah Ruhl’s enthralling play is about the decades-long friendship between the 20th century poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert ...

“(The county) has been putting Band-Aids on the runway for quite a long time and the FAA has told us already that they’re not ...

Curator Patrick Kahn’s health battle makes “Earth’s Last Picture” poignantly personal for artist Dan Hess, who thinks of Kahn ...

Scattered through this blogpost are passages from the poem: A Prayer for the Restoration of the Gaza Envelope Yizhar told ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

The price we pay for loneliness is high. We need to change the conversation and foster meaningful connections.

Intergenerational friendships are relationships between people from who have an age difference of 10 to 20 years or more.