I think the things that are essential for creating are also essential for living, says poet Maggie Smith. There’s a lot of overlap between making things and just being a person in the world.

With more than 300,000 copies of her seven books sold, Donna has become the face of modern poetry. Her works – which touch on ...

California has no shortage of seafood joints claiming to serve “authentic” East Coast classics. Most of them miss the mark by ...

Everyone is ready to get to the Fairgrounds, but now is the time to prepare for things like travel, big crowds and what you ...

It is perhaps the only place outside Francophone countries where it is spoken so widely. Last week, the village hosted a ...

Tommy Orange and Akbar recently stopped along their tour to discuss their friendship, uncanny parallels between their novels and their feelings about the Bay Area.

David Siegel and Scott McGehee's latest film 'The Friend' is the kind of warm, witty, and wise character study we don't get ...

Jnanpith award for Hindi literature, the highest literary honor in India, has been awarded to Vinod Kumar Shukla (88), a poet and writer of adult and children’s fiction […] ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

In his debut collection, The Long Invisible, poet Michael Dechane examines broken relationship and starting anew. Many of the works are set in Florida, where Dechane grew up, as well as Western North ...

TBR columnist Melissa Heckscher writes about all things related to theater and arts in and around the beach cities.

God never promised that following and serving Him in this life would be easy. There is no promises of rose gardens in the ...