Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...

Born in India, then sent home to England as a baby, the artist developed an affinity with the ‘Celtic fringe’ and the sexual ...

Poets have long been drawn to ballet, and not surprisingly, they write about their favorite dancers and ballet companies.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

What better time than stormy February to celebrate the richness of Santa Cruz’s literary community? What better time to read poetry than a stormy day amid political upheaval? Here, Lookout launches an ...