LADERA RANCH – Resident Michele Ruvalcaba is one of several Orange County writers whose work has been published in the book “Interstices: An Anthology of Stories, Memoirs, Essays & Poems.” Ruvalcaba’s ...

There is an appropriateness, somehow, in turning to ”Next-to-Last Things” in this, the waning of the year. It is that kind of book: Portrait of the artist as an old man. One pictures the 80-year-old ...

April is National Poetry Month, and there are all kinds of poetry events in the city. And I’m the Houston Youth Poet Laureate, a position created by Writers in the Schools, the Mayor’s Office of ...

“I spent a good part of my 15th year puzzling over drafts of poems by Dylan Thomas… often copying out each successive draft myself… trying to deduce... the reason for revisions in sound”. So wrote ...

Friendship, for poets, has long been grist for the mill. Anyone studying poetry is likely to stumble upon literary friendships – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge come instantly to mind, ...

ORANGE – Sometimes it takes a young person to understand a young person. Even if it’s 63 years later and a world away. Chapman University today named the winners of its Holocaust Art and Writing ...

Since her first album in 1991, I’ve been listening to Carrie Newcomer sharing her musical reflections on the ordinary, lending her rich alto to songs less interested in stories than in moments. (© ...