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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...