For poet and longtime UNLV professor Claudia Keelan, poetry is an art of continual present-tense attention to the world, in ...

This week, the magazine features “Determination,” by Stephen Dobyns. I had the chance to ask the author about the kindling and spark that fed this comic poem. _“Determination” begins with and loops ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- An Ohio poet says she cannot answer questions about her own poems on recent STAAR tests administered to middle schoolers in Texas. Two of Sara Holbrook's poems were published in the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...