There was the word "Goodbye," which was taped to that ­particular page. The poem my ­fingers had landed on was called "Goodbye," and it was about someone saying farewell to the world.

Well, here it is – my last column. I suppose I always knew this day would come, but I never expected it to feel quite like ...

At Spoleto Festival Charleston, Patti Smith performed at secret pop-up show before she took the stage at College of ...

Rituals differ, but this past year, I read a poem, and we toasted one another. For a transitional object, I have always given my students a stamped postcard with my handwritten name and address to ...

Customers bid fond farewell to Malibu’s OG smoothie and health food store The Vitamin Barn Another sign of change is coming to Malibu with the imminent closure of The Vitamin Barn. You’ve seen a going ...

The East Bremerton school will move to a temporary home for 18 months while a permanent campus is rebuilt on-site.

In his 1956 poem “Howl,” Allen Ginsberg wrote, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” All these years later, we are not destroying our best minds. We’re just ...

Find a pay phone, dial a toll free number and say goodbye to someone. That’s the premise of the Goodbye Line, an art project that utilizes pay phones across L.A. Anyone can listen to the ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

It meant Irish goodbyes — or what I thought an Irish goodbye meant at the time. Because I am a descendant of Irish immigrants from quite a long time ago, I had always assumed that my family practiced ...