To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

STERLING ― The newest additions at Davis Farmland are tiny, fluffy, full of energy and a first for the organization. The farm welcomed sextuplet Finn lambs this spring, and while the breed is ...

Rick Davis, longtime owner of Rick Davis' Gold and Diamonds on Brainerd Road, has been arrested once again. This time Davis was charged with harassing an attorney and his son. Attorney Buddy ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

Davis raises the bar on sheer brawniness in this ... confession about Sutton’s history of military service and the Time magazine cover photo that started her political career.

There is a scene on Homer’s Iliad that I find insightful and funny at the same time. The battle for Troy has begun (in the ...

On April 9, the governing board, this time, approved the hiring of Davis to succeed Jeremy Hathcock as Verrado's coach. "After a long and arduous process, I'm very excited to get started at ...

Mark Twain said, “Show me a man who knows what’s funny and I’ll show you a man who knows what’s not.” The one and only ...