When Swift told us, on The Tortured Poets Department, that she was no Patti Smith, she meant that she wasn’t a groundbreaking ...

Blank Space If you opened Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, and asked it to write a poem about anti-wokeness like a ...

St. Teresa of Calcutta’s “dark night of the soul” was a distinct charism that helped her build her faith and serve others, ...

New books, from Bay Area and Northern California authors, listed by release date: Linda Watanabe McFerrin, award-winning poet, novelist, travel writer, and founder of the literary group Left Coast ...

Your spirits will be lifted and your emotions could be near the surface. You could be thinking about a loved one whose ...

The West Wing' creator Aaron Sorkin visited the White House to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary — and it has inspired ...

There are things we know and cannot say, that cannot be organized into component words, which might be parsed and sorted and ...

Without a doubt, Sonnet 20 is a layered poetic nod to the idea that love and attraction ... is one of those poems that are so acutely aware of what grief, sorrow and depression feel like that ...

Become seduced by the undercover spy-for-hire at the heart of Rachel Kushner’s thriller “Creation Lake”; ring in Sad Girl Autumn ... the narrator contemplates love, art, beauty, family ...

Poetry. Paris. A variety of mystery/crime novels. We’ve got it all today. “Stars Unseen”: by Greg Watson (Holy Cow! Press, $16.95) It couldn’t have been much, whatever/could be tossed into two plastic ...

Name Kate Pierson Best known for Beehive hair and singer in The B-52s. Current city Cape Cod, MA Really want to be in Where I ...

No Depression In Heaven is an album about death and love — they all are — but it ... I tried my best to celebrate the pure poetry that is this song while making something different, too.