School hosted the KAIROS 2026 Mega Pool Drive on the theme Where Action Meets Opportunity. Over 500 candidates were connected ...

April has been a busy month for Bend writer Ellen Waterston, but then it is National Poetry Month and Waterston IS the reigning Oregon Poet Laureate. An event Tuesday at Larkspur Community Center ...

At just 31 syllables in Japanese, the tanka (literally, “short poem”) spread quickly — reshared and rewritten as others swapped out Okamoto’s umbrellas for their own accumulations: “all these open ...

In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve rounded up a selection of readings, performances, workshops, and celebrations of poetry’s vital place in our city’s culture. Whether you’re a poet, poetry ...

Poetry in Ukraine is playing a vital role in processing trauma and bolstering resistance amid the ongoing war launched by Russia. Ukrainian war poetry does not make for comfortable reading. Indeed, ...

Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, ...

Abstract: Bayesian inference provides a methodology for parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification in machine learning and deep learning methods. Variational inference and Markov Chain ...

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand a change in our habits. For many, the season provokes an unmistakable turn ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...