It’s cause for rejoicing whenever a Bay Area theater programs a play by a local writer. But two by the same local, in a single year? That’s an unheard-of level of dominance. In TheatreWorks Silicon ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a ...

Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic and inaugural member of the Rose Choreographic School in Sadlers Wells East, London.

Set in the recent past, Austin Kelley's debut novel centers on a magazine underling who becomes entranced with a Manic Pixie ...

Dorothy O’Brien photo April, somewhere distant, spring fading while summer still is just out of reach. Right out of a ...

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

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls. And he has taught us that we are as good as our capacity for caring. Caring about the drug ...

What’s really at play here? The widely respected British daily newspaper The Guardian recently nailed it in an editorial.

The truth of the matter is that I broke this promise as soon as I returned to America. I declared my major as English, and I ...

Jews like to talk about antisemitism, the Holocaust, the war in Gaza and the troubles facing our nation. Don't forget to ...

E.A. Hanks says her father, actor Tom Hanks, was among the first to read "The Ten," which traces her six-month road trip in ...