When California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick shares his travel schedule with his friends, he says they often compare it to the itinerary of a band on tour. “It’s just city after city after city.” It’s an ...

Being California Poet Laureate means he has to travel often, Lee Herrick said. And along with that travel, he says, comes lots of joy. Herrick, 52, is a writer and California’s 10th poet laureate, a ...

Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, who celebrates his home state in "My California," joins the L.A. Times Book Club tonight. Herrick will be in a live streaming conversation with Times editor Steve Padilla ...

Earlier this month, David Starkey, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2011, hosted his semi-annual poetry series at the Goleta Valley Library. Given that it was the last day of Fiesta, August 4, ...

California governor Jerry Brown has found the state's newest poet laureate in a long-time advocate for the power of poetry in public culture. Dana Gioia, a professor of poetry and public culture at ...

One might think, with the harsh news we read and hear every day, that there is no poetry left in the world, but that’s just not true. Poetry is all around us. Under the canopy outside the Café Frida ...

Al YOUNG, a Mississippi-born writer living in the Bay Area since the early 1960s, is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s pick to serve as California’s second formally recognized poet laureate -- a job that ...

Prepare for an evening of powerful poetry and personal storytelling with California's current Poet Laureate Lee Herrick on Thursday at Beale Memorial Library. This event with Harrick is part of this ...

Chaucer’s Books will host an evening of poetry with readings from the new release “Women in a Golden State: California Poets at 60 and Beyond,” 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 24 at 3321 State St., Santa Barbara ...

Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described “modern hermit,” is going to Washington. The Library of Congress will announce today that the lifelong Californian, whose ...

Jack Foley's radio show about poetry was called "Cover to Cover," and its host embodied that title by compiling a 1,300-page anthology that included just about every poet and poem published in ...

Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, who celebrates his home state in “My California,” joined the L.A. Times Book Club on Dec. 12. Herrick performed two poems, recounted sharing his work in schools and at a ...