Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Zephaniah brought poetry to the masses - Roberto Ricciuti Benjamin Zephaniah – who has died today, after a short illness ...

Poetry, for most of us, is something our ninth grade English teacher made us write and read. But poetry has been a part of our history dating back 4,000 years. Topics range from love to loss. It has ...

Eugene F. Merkert Chemistry Center is perhaps the most unlikely place on campus to find anything resembling culture. Typically the building where the dreams of frazzled potential premeds like myself ...

This story is part of Lit City, our comprehensive guide to the literary geography of Los Angeles. Long Beach has a long and too often overlooked role in Southern California’s artistic history, from ...

On Oct. 24, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading was held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, spotlighting Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work. As a Chilean poet, artist, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On the first brisk night of fall in Los Angeles, the self-described surrealist blues ...