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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Dear Readers: I cannot possibly reprint all the poems, essays and “favorite columns” that my gracious readers have sent on — my mailbox was jammed! Several of the most-often requested essays have ...

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 ...

Poetry offers her a purity she can't find in prose -- a certain, bare clarity of where she is and where she's been. It's not always a comfortable process that exposes thoughts and feelings, but it's ...

Mr. Kaminsky is a Ukrainian American poet and the author of “Dancing in Odessa” and “Deaf Republic.” Two weeks into the war, the Russians are still menacing my birth city, Odessa, in southwestern ...