OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A memorial for the victims of the Ghost Ship Fire in Oakland recently disappeared and was replaced by a poem by an anonymous writer on the columns surrounding Lake Merritt.

Some books, like “The Institutionalist Approach to Public Utility Regulation,” defeat commentary; others, like “Ulysses,” invite it. “Pale Fire,” Vladimir Nabokov’s resplendent rare bird of a novel, ...

Kirk Latimer and Gabriel Giron don't know how it happened, but they're enjoying the attention given to the "Michigan Poem." The duo makes up the Kalamazoo-based spoken word team, to write a piece ...

A controversial poem planned for inclusion the City/County Plaza Veterans Memorial has received enough criticism that the city’s Public Art Board is reconsidering it. Complaints about the poem, which ...

Nineteenth-century composer Alexander Scriabin believed that there is an intrinsic relationship between music and color. So, when he wrote his work “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” 100 years ago, he ...

The 2015 edition of The Best American Poetry is facing controversy for including a poem from “Yi-Fen Chou,” the female Asian-sounding pen name of Michael Derrick Hudson, a white male poet from Fort ...