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

Her work focuses on her personal experiences and brings her own feelings through the page via her poetry. She was born in the ...

"A 25-year-old told me last week that he wanted to retire at 30. I said, 'Aww, that's cute.'" View Entire Post › ...

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 ...

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

The older you get, the more you realize that the best life advice comes from people who have truly lived it. The “Old Friend ...

There are some guarantees with the Typewriter Rodeo, including, almost every year, we’ll have a back-to-school poem, a ...

Book publishers this year seem to be turning away from the heavy-hitters and opting for something silly. Here are some of the best.