Bill Moyers said that "poets are witnesses to life." Poet JoAnna O'Keefe has indeed been a witness to America's growing tribulations, starting very young — years old, in fact — when her family ...

Singer/songwriter Nick Shattuck, who lives in Redondo Beach, has written songs out of “anger and frustration and grief.” So when the news came that Renee Good, a 37-year old mother and poet, was ...

Dana Gioia is the author of six collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), winner of the American Book Award, and 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016), awarded the Poets’ Prize. Gioia’s ...

Patti Smith got a shout-out from Taylor Swift on the song “The Tortured Poets Department” and she is touched by the mention. “This is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. When Galway Kinnell accepted the post of Vermont's State Poet in 1989, the honor didn't come without a bit of polite ...

Timrod did not fight in the Civil War, but he wrote poems about it and its effect on life in the South. While he became known as the poet laureate of the Confederacy, he is a relatively obscure poet ...

Peter Blackstock of No Depression Magazine on the West Coast produced a tribute to Newbury, Frisco Mabel Joy Revisited, available on the Appleseed label. “My primary motivation for putting together ...