Seattle inaugurated its fifth-ever Civic Poet, Dujie Tahat, in a ceremony in the City Council Chambers. Hosted by the Office ...

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

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.

Sophie Freeman is a queer woman who grew up in a “very small, rural, conservative town” in the Missouri Bootheel. She spoke ...

In her new book, "I Am Maria," the child of the Kennedy family, broadcast journalist, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and – after the end of her marriage – a woman in search of herself offers an ...

In her new memoir, the daughter of Kennedys, broadcast journalist and former first lady of California uses poetry to explore ...

All that I am sure of right now is I need to be gentle with the new version of myself—the dreams, and what I hope to become. I do not have to know exactly who I am becoming yet. I just trust that I am ...

Now after a release this February, “Becoming Led Zeppelin” has received ... s “Piece by Piece” and the right wing satire “Am I Racist?” And worldwide, it’s already at $14.3 million ...

Gorgeously rendered in picturesque cinematography, "Always" offers a meditative and patient look into the life of an ...

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