Poems don’t give you news, they give you inspiration. Poems don’t give you knowledge, they heighten your sensitivity. Poems don’t give you information, they increase your empathy.

An actor, playwright and poet, his works changed the way in which people thought ... leader on this list but the fourteenth Dalai Lama has earned his title as a true inspiration thanks to his ...

Harry Cluff on the debts owed by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams & Rainer Maria Rilke to the painter.

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

The Santa Barbara City Council is getting ready to appoint a new Poet Laureate. George Yatchisin is slated to be appointed by ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

Miller said he is honored to be Austin’s first poet laureate. It’s a two-year role through Austin Public Library with the ...

A Man Escaped’ is a story of a man seeking temporal salvation, but Robert Bresson’s film takes on deeper meaning, becoming a ...

An Irvine resident who has been writing poetry for 30 years and has published two books of poems, will produce original pieces and lead workshops at Costa Mesa-sponsored events under a two-year ...

The popular subjects depicted by Qi Baishi (1864-1957), a leading painter of the 20th century, include shrimp, birds, ...

But perhaps his least-known endeavor was as a poet. Kilmer was a writer of poetry for much of his adult life, having begun dabbling in the form in his twenties as he studied at The Juilliard ...