Chicano poet and activist Trinidad “Trino” V. Sanchez Jr., who died July 30 at age 63 in San Antonio, was renowned for the hip, socially astute writing that galvanized audiences in venues including ...

Mary Ruefle's careful, measured sentences sound as if they were written by a thousand-year-old person who is still genuinely curious about the world. All of it. Trees. Crumbs. Doors. The all-consuming ...

like those outrageous yellow trumpet flowers.

"How do we enter the poem?" That's the first question poets are asked to consider for their readers. When reworking and formatting, before the line breaks or last word, the poet must find a way into ...

Students at Echo High School were thinking about colors Thursday afternoon when Oregons poet laureate came for a visit. Paulann Petersen taught the students of Mike Herizas English class about imagery ...

In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before it was all greens and earth tones. It was the sudden awakening of a new aesthetic; our “shrew-like” ancestors, ...