Spoken word artist K Love The Poet discusses her journey to finding purpose, performance with MC Lyte, and how poetry became her vehicle for empowerment.

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

What is most significant is that the particular tradition of ‘Mothering Sunday’ – as found in the UK, Ireland and some ...

I think the things that are essential for creating are also essential for living, says poet Maggie Smith. There’s a lot of overlap between making things and just being a person in the world.

In the final episodes of When Life Gives You Tangerines , Ae Sun and her family find happiness running a successful squid ...

In the early days of the Who, Pete Townshend gave little thought to a solo career. Writing songs for the band, crafting ...

The church is called to build people up and help people discover and develop the talents and abilities God has given them, ...

Eugenia Bless Coleman has reached the age of 18--but with a depth of thoughtfulness far beyond her years, especially ...

Also: The hundred-year-old jazz saxophonist Marshall Allen, Baz Luhrmann’s dramatic new East Village bar, Alice Childress’s ...

Gene Carmichael’s morning routine includes a cup of coffee, the Pioneer Press and a phone call. For 15 years, Carmichael has been calling the Ideas for Positive Living phone line at 11 a.m. daily to ...