April Fools' Day is just around the corner. This year, the holiday, which is not a federal or national holiday but widely ...

Carmen Bugan’s latest collection is Tristia (Shearsman Books). Her memoir Burying the Typewriter will be republished as a ...

From ancient Rome to the era of A.I., people have prized originality, but the line where influence ends and cribbing begins ...

This is by no means an exhaustive list, but rather a snapshot of some of the names you know − and some you may not.

If it is ‘certain that we shall not be here for long,’ as Blaise Pascal says, ‘and uncertain whether we shall be here even one hour,’ then what lies beyond death matters more than anything else.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his ...

Rarely has such a short title worked harder than Howl, which Howard Jacobson takes from Allen Ginsberg’s incantatory 1955 ...

And finally, a very kind man noted after his own experience losing a beloved pet: “There is no better friend and few harder ...

Yes, writers want their books to sell, just as Popes want their prayers answered. A publisher friend tells me that the sales of books are negotiated now, not so much in bookshops but through the ...

Sheet of drawings in multicolored felt-tip pens featuring a hand holding a rose and bearing the following poem: "If words, old-fashioned Si les étaux et les mots des If fools make the jumps If ...

I want a street named Dolores Huerta Let me tell you why It would show us where we’ve been And where we can go if we try And ...

Disappointingly, Burbank's City Council has not been forceful publicly in its only slightly perceivable effort to resist Sacramento and Los Angeles METRO diktat producers ...