Once, in my youth, I took a graduate philosophy seminar I thought would be about law and justice: Instead we discussed the semantic implications of punctuation marks. After class, I found myself ...
Sophomore Jocelin Raygoza, who attended the event, enjoyed O’Grady’s poetry and his complimentary anecdotes he offered ...
CARBONDALE — As Thunder River Theatre Company’s Valerie Haugen launched a poetry festival in memory of a close friend in 2011, the notion of encouragement kept coming to mind. “When my friend Karen ...
A look at George Yatchisin’s conversations with local book clubs and the evolving role of Santa Barbara’s poet laureate.
One night sometime in the early 1930s a New Jersey doctor left a note for his wife on the door of their fridge. He looked at it again and saw something he hadn't noticed when first writing it down, ...
CHRISTIAN WIMAN is a poet and editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. His most recent book of poems, Every Riven Thing, was published last fall by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Some existential glitch in ...
March 21 is World Poetry Day: "Poetry has been alive and kicking since its birth over 5,000 years ago," says the director of Berlin's House for Poetry. UNESCO adopted March 21 as "World Poetry Day " ...