A native Southern Californian who graduated from Cal Poly Pomona and Claremont Graduate University, Erik has worked as a digital and print journalist in the area for more than two decades.

The Strokestown International Poetry Festival 2026 will take place over the May Bank Holiday weekend from Friday to Sunday, ...

Yann Martel’s ambitious new novel is composed largely of verse fragments from a fictional lost-and-found alternative to the Iliad of Homer - but you might be better off reading the real thing.

There was nothing he couldn’t do. This was Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari’s conclusion about Raphael (1483-1520), the view of his contemporaries and his patrons, and a reasonable conclusion ...

The Seattle Public Library loves to promote books and reading. This monthly column is a space to share reading and book trends from a librarian’s perspective. Black people throughout the diaspora have ...

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...

Boyle Heights students taking part in “Feng Shui Poetry in the Parks” visit nature throughout the city to write poetry. Students credit poetry and nature exposure with helping them build confidence ...

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand a change in our habits. For many, the season provokes an unmistakable turn ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

After Rashan Brown finished his first major gig as a spoken-word poet — opening for bestselling author and poet Rupi Kaur at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, in December 2022 — he stepped ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...