Doty's first book, Turtle, Swan, appeared in 1987. He has published six books of poetry and four memoirs, all excellent, since. This hefty selection from his seven collections, plus a generous sheaf ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A memorial for the victims of the Ghost Ship Fire in Oakland recently disappeared and was replaced by a poem by an anonymous writer on the columns surrounding Lake Merritt.

Out of the flames of his house fire Finn Bille created poetry and collected aid for other fire victims. Mr. Bille’s recently published collection, Fire Poems, deals with the fire that destroyed his ...

Chico author and artist Meghan Irene Turner, survivor of the Camp Fire, recipient of a Ph.D. from the Institute of Metaphysical Humanistic Science, and ardent observer of the natural world, finds in ...

The poem is about a memory I have of my grandmother playing with the stovetop’s fire. As a child, I watched her cook, and she would tell me stories about her life and our family. One day, she showed ...

Emily Pauline Johnson (1861–1913) — known also by her Mohawk stage name, Tekahionwake — toured her native Canada and the United States as what we might now call a performance poet, whose act turned on ...

Our list we go over for last-minute tweaks. We’ve been through this before, more times than most, Because we live closer to mountains than coast. We packed passports and photos and personal needs, Art ...

“To arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic / while it’s sinking, … would it be so foolish after all?” asks the first poem in my chapbook "Only So Far" (Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2019). Imagining ...

I admit it — I have a tendency to feel jaded. So if someone were to tell me that Brenda Hillman spent the last 17 years writing four books of poetry, one for each of the elements — land, air, water, ...

The fire is dying. It is mostly charred embers and ash now, but the end of a once hefty log keeps a red glow. I look at the fire, and I ponder resurrection. There's paper at hand in the bin, and ...