For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most ...

Cover and spread from “Pomada (Pomade)” (1913), with poem by Alexei Kruchenykh and lithography by Mikhail Larionov (all images courtesy The Getty Research Institute) Made from paper often stapled ...

Simon Armitage has translated a number of medieval poems into modern English, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Death of King Arthur” (an anonymous work, not Malory’s long prose ...

Read Across America Week, writers and book groups scheduled to meet from the beach to Olympia ...

While Hagit Vardi has published five books of poetry in Israel, “She Wasn’t Damaged” is her first book of poems translated into English. Reading the more than 50 poems — in both Hebrew and English — ...

Strange Road is a poem by Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. It is part of Life, Rearranged, a special series of new, original writing by the 2025 Governor ...

This year, my favorite poetry books are not all books of poetry: there were too many books about poets, books of prose by poets, and other marginal cases I wanted to include. “Prodigal: New and ...

Renowned Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya is primarily known as a novelist. His works like 'Bless Me Ultima,' 'Tortuga,' 'Albuquerque' and 'Heart of Aztlan' are classics that have established him as the ...

DULUTH — Debbi Rasmussen has been writing poetry since at least the second grade. None of those poems made it into her new 21-poem book set to be released, but she said it helped her get started. "I ...