LADERA RANCH – Resident Michele Ruvalcaba is one of several Orange County writers whose work has been published in the book “Interstices: An Anthology of Stories, Memoirs, Essays & Poems.” Ruvalcaba’s ...

Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems -- traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent ...

April is National Poetry Month, and there are all kinds of poetry events in the city. And I’m the Houston Youth Poet Laureate, a position created by Writers in the Schools, the Mayor’s Office of ...

There is an appropriateness, somehow, in turning to ”Next-to-Last Things” in this, the waning of the year. It is that kind of book: Portrait of the artist as an old man. One pictures the 80-year-old ...

Friendship, for poets, has long been grist for the mill. Anyone studying poetry is likely to stumble upon literary friendships – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge come instantly to mind, ...

“I spent a good part of my 15th year puzzling over drafts of poems by Dylan Thomas… often copying out each successive draft myself… trying to deduce... the reason for revisions in sound”. So wrote ...

With "a stubborn predilection for finding out what a poem determinately means," renowned 100-year-old scholar Abrams (The Mirror and the Lamp) explores a variety of literary subjects in this ...

ORANGE – Sometimes it takes a young person to understand a young person. Even if it’s 63 years later and a world away. Chapman University today named the winners of its Holocaust Art and Writing ...

For Vernal & Sere Theatre’s 10th production ”The Glass Essay,” founding company member Sawyer Estes issued himself a unique challenge as a playwright: He wouldn’t actually write a line of dialogue ...

Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry collection was first translated into Spanish in 1915 by Zenobia Camprubí de Aymar, an accomplished woman and poet; she was assisted by Juan Ramón Jiménez, the 1956 Nobel ...