Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, 27, is a Chinese/Taiwanese American spoken word artist who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. A two season veteran of Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry, Kelly’s been involved ...

Henry Shukman considers the Zen koan to be the most condensed narrative. “They are very inscrutable. They make no sense to the mind, but they can bring on a dramatic shift in how we experience and see ...

This month’s featured poet, Dick Allen, was Connecticut’s poet laureate from 2010 to 2015. He is the author of eight poetry collections and has received many of poetry’s highest honors and most ...

PORT TOWNSEND -- Sam Hamill, a reclusive former Marine turned Zen Buddhist poet, is an unlikely spokesman for the anti-war poetry movement he started almost by accident. Hamill triggered a nationwide ...

Wouldn't hurt. Snyder, who turned 85 the week before, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet (for the 1975 collection Turtle Island), award-winning essayist, early conservationist, community activist, ...

SACRAMENTO — California has an official state rock (serpentine), an official state motto (“Eureka,” yelped by lucky gold miners), and even an official state insect (the dogface butterfly). So why not, ...