San Diego's poet laureate Jason Magabo Perez, pictured here in an undated photo, believes in poetry's power to bring people together. Jason Magabo Perez wears many hats: educator, organizer, performer ...

Russell Shorto, Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany. 2 p.m. Free with museum admission. 463-4478 or http://www.albanyinstitute.org The ...

As one of the largest pop artists in the world, Taylor Swift’s music has permeated grocery stores, car rides and playlists. The authors of a new book said Swift’s songs are more than just earworms — ...

In the heart of Denver's Santa Fe Arts District, The Word, a nonprofit that describes itself as a ‘Storytelling Sanctuary,’ offers a celebration of storytelling this weekend with the second annual ...

Translators used to be secondary characters in the publishing industry. An issue of The New York Times Book Review aims to put their craft in the spotlight. By Katherine J. Igoe Times Insider explains ...

Kansas City is home to novelists and poets, bookstores and publishers, libraries and writer's groups, creating a rich literary landscape. And with the American Association of Writers and Writing ...

“An Avedon portrait of a Havanese,” I type into my laptop. An actual, if elderly and ailing, Havanese is looking up at me as I work, and an Avedon portrait book is open on my desk. What could be more ...

NEW YORK - There are author success stories. There's winning the lottery. And then there's Chad Harbach. A long-suffering, often-starving MFA graduate, Harbach spent much of his 20s and 30s working ...

Restless Women Travelers Book Launches, The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home, 2 Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass. 5:30 p.m. $15 (includes an e-book). (413) 551-5111.A new series of classic and contemporary travel ...

Friends of the APL Book Review, Albany Public Library, 161 Washington Ave., Albany. Noon. Free. 518-427-4300 or albanypubliclibrary.org. Patricia Nugent discusses her anthology "Before They Were Our ...