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 ...

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 ...

Dear Readers: I cannot possibly reprint all the poems, essays and “favorite columns” that my gracious readers have sent on — my mailbox was jammed! Several of the most-often requested essays have ...

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, ...

For Vernal & Sere Theatre’s 10th production ”The Glass Essay,” founding company member Sawyer Estes issued himself a unique challenge as a playwright: He wouldn’t actually write a line of dialogue ...

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 ...