Years ago, I woman with whom I had been intimate, gave me a copy of Anais Nin's Little Birds. She had hand-written pages of a poem on the blank pages, I think, about six pages. Poems by lovers have ...

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of "The Verging Cities" (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015). She teaches at Juan Diego Catholic High School and lives in Salt Lake City. About The Academy of ...

In 2021, the second full year of the pandemic, I began to go outside more after a year of intense insideness. Like others, I started noticing what I had not known how to see previously: the arching of ...

Photo by Rachel Giese Brown. Via. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver rolled into Southern California last night to rock UCLA’s Royce Hall. At 75, she’s only slightly older than Madonna and has a ...

Nick Jonas’ emotions got the best of him during a recent Jonas Brothers’ concert. While performing the group’s song “Little Bird” with brothers Joe Jonas and Kevin Jonas, Nick, 31, strummed his guitar ...