In times of darkness, artists go to work,” said Toni Morrison. After the fires, Altadena’s poets laureate do just that.

Despite July’s persistent heat and humidity, poetry enthusiasts gathered under the shade of a few linden trees on the ...

The late Poet Laureate of Kentucky, Jesse Hilton Stuart, published 2,000 poems, 460 short stories, and more than 60 books.

When our Poet Laureate Chris Tse had his term extended, he embraced it as a gift of extra time, something all writers welcome. His tenure is just about to end with a final event at Word Christchurch, ...

Pressure for Wellbrock came from the media, friends, family, himself. His training group in Magdeburg in Germany was “really strong” and “everybody’s talking about medals, about gold medals especially ...

In "The Last Sweet Bite," Michael Shaikh looks to those who are preserving their food and culinary traditions in the ...

A renowned folk guitarist is set to perform by the water at a sailing club on Morecambe Bay. Martin Simpson will take to the stage at Arnside Sailing Club on Sunday, August 10. With more than 20 ...

Chicago hip-hop star Chance the Rapper is releasing a new album. Why it matters: The Grammy Award-winning artist has grown to become the city's unofficial poet laureate and his generation's Studs ...

Today in History for Aug. 2: In 1100, King William II of England was killed in a hunting accident.

The Goo Goo Dolls bring their Summer Anthem Tour to OKC as the Bob Dylan Center hosts an all-star tribute to Dylan’s electric era.

Are the hills of Iowa meshed with a vast network of death camps, comparable in moral terms to those of the Holocaust? This is one of the questions raised, indeed hurled, by Elizabeth Costello in The ...

Notably on the agenda is the first reading of a new ordinance that would regulate the use of golf carts in the city.