Long-distance relationships can be a challenge. You're in love for a reason, after all, and when you're apart, the distance can fill you with longing. Our long-distance relationship poems capture ...

There could not be a more fitting title for Jeanine Hatha­way’s new poetry collection than Long after Lauds. Lauds is a monastic morning prayer, and Hathaway was a Dominican nun for nine years ...

This year, National Poetry Month celebrates its 25th year of recognizing important language, culture and community. Each April, poets and readers of all ages take part in National Poetry Month by ...

This story is part of Lit City, our comprehensive guide to the literary geography of Los Angeles. Long Beach has a long and too often overlooked role in Southern California’s artistic history, from ...

For poetry fans, it will be the best of times and the versed of times in Long Beach on April 5-6. The Long Beach Public Library and the literary group Shore Poets will host the third annual "It's a ...

Robert Lowell was the draw in 1975 for budding poets Scott Harney and Megan Marshall, when the two took the Pulitzer Prize winner’s poetry workshop at Harvard University. Marshall still remembers the ...

“The Man in the Moon isn’t made of cheese, as young children like to believe. It’s much more magical than that.” So begins Tara Lamberti’s poem “Growing Up Grumman,” one of 12 works featured in ...

Virgil, Horace and Varius, at the house of Maecenas. Vintage engraving circa late 19th century. Digital restoration by Pictore. pictore / Getty Images Many school children subjected to mind-numbing ...