Karen Skinazi, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and the director of Liberal Arts at the University of ...

The White House is marking Valentine's Day with a bit humor, posting a holiday-themed poem about deporting illegal aliens. "Roses are red, violets are blue, come here illegally, and we'll deport you," ...

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

Both a valentine to Iranian cinema and an absurdist look at Winnipeg, Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin's comedy is ...

The internet has given us many things, but one of its greatest contributions is the creation of sentences so bizarre, so ...

You might not have heard of the Salish Sea Poetry Festival before, but that’s about to change. The up-and-coming organization ...

What’s up, Kreon?” isn’t something you’d hear in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Antigone,” written in 440 B.C. But in Anne ...

Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

Four local high school students competed in the Poetry Out Loud 2025 El Dorado Finals at Imagination Theater on Feb. 6. Each ...

The acclaimed Rumi’s Caravan returns to Davis on Saturday, March 15. For 25 years, Rumi’s Caravan has performed throughout ...

Jay Leno is finding humorous moments with his wife during her battle with dementia. Leno, 74, opened up about the quality time he spends with his wife Mavis since the news of her advanced dementia ...

“Apparently, there’s a new Chinese A.I. company that can much more cheaply make us have to hear about A.I.” ...