"The wedding day came, and the shining water," goes one of the characteristically succinct and pungent lines in Federico Garcia Lorca's mournful "Blood Wedding." Garcia Lorca based this 1933 play ...

Claudia Rankine accepts the Poetry Award during theLos Angeles Times Book Prizes awards at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in Los Angeles, Calif ...

Here, for Valentine's Day, are poems that represent extreme, opposite notions of love. One-word labels for them might be innocence and decadence.Both qualities can generate great intensity, as ...

Divate’s poetry is a continuation of what Pablo Neruda called ‘impure poetry’. This kind of poetry does not exclude even the most prosaic and quotidian aspect of the world.