Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

February, and the events of this year so far have not inspired much optimism. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being slashed, hundreds of people have lost their homes to fires and members ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.

For our wedding a little over a year ago, my partner and I chose a poem by Hafiz called “Our Union,” which my aunt read out ...

Trees will be set up around Excelsior for people to decorate as part of the annual Giving Tree Project. The Giving Tree Project, which started in 1996, ensures people who have ...

Dr Sanjeev Chopra Authors of most books published in the last two years – and I know this from reading the Prologue/Preface/Acknowledgments in books nominated for the Valley of Words Book Awards – ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single TV in need of decent sound, must be in want of one of the best soundbars. Go ahead — watch a movie with your built-in TV speakers, and you ...

Our latest study regarding the donors’ side of the American giving equation included data from 2020 – the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that a long-term decline in Americans ...

As this mom-and-daughter duo hopes, this tree continues to keep on giving, well after the holiday season has come and gone. Lamark says people can put clean, new, or gently used winter items on ...

Below, you’ll find a list of companies giving back — plus some Los Angeles-specific merchandise — if you want to stretch your shopping dollars and help out our friends on the West Coast.