Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

Contra Costa County Poetry Out Loud champion Olivia Buhlman will next compete in the state finals in Sacramento.

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 ...

It's time to send out the Christmas newsletter again this year. Sure, it could be the same old dry recitation of your family ...

Here’s an example, in a poem called “Nicholson Baker & I,” from Catherine Barnett’s book “Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space”: “‘Open the second shutter/so that more ...