For the last eight years, Mancos resident and former Fort Lewis College education professor Lindy Simmons has produced an original two-hour Thursday night variety show involving day performers from ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was seven or eight years old and was first published in 2006. She confides that ...

To me, the flow and rhythm are what make poetry so captivating, and subsequently, I think that rhyming lines can only help that effort. These four poems and excerpts below demonstrate exactly what I'm ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

I’d gone out to rake leaves, lay compost and weed the artichokes we grow on the strip between the sidewalk and the street. I’d been a bit impatient, grumpy even, hacking away. I also discovered that ...

The melody of ancient yinsong is attracting new followers enchanted by its echoes of tradition, Xing Wen reports. The pitch is crucial, as is the rhythm. It is musical, but not essentially music. The ...