Love always has been a mystery to me, and I doubt I’m alone in that. It seems to be THE critical thing in living, the thing ...

The title of the poem alludes to Greta Garbo’s best-known line, “I want to be alone”, and the poem may be Garbo speaking ...

What is it about love and pain that makes us want to write more than when we are bursting with joy? Why are all of my ...

Captain Kendra Curtice was his executive officer on Fort Moore. She says they helped each other, sharing about struggles and then poetry, leading her to get help too. “I feel like I’m getting better.

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

“Poetry is the human record,” Gizzi said, “because what we write about and what we witness is intimacy. We have found a proper way to say goodbye. We have found a remarkable way to pronounce love ...

Inorganic and organic, pain and joy are reconciled in Padel’s poetry through a celebration of diversity, emotional, ...

In partnership with SPL, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here" in April, which is National Poetry Month.

Richard Linklater’s rapturous 1995 romance about Interrailing strangers – played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy – once felt ...

In the late 1960s, one of the hippest places in Los Angeles was Venice, especially the area known simply as “The Canals.” ...

I wanted Midwestern prairies, but we moved to his hometown on the West Coast. He wooed me and wanted L.A. to seduce me. Would ...