Gov. Jim Pillen appointed Omaha author and performer Jewel Rodgers as Nebraska's new state poet. Rodgers, 27, is the youngest ...

Being chosen as our nation’s first African-American poet laureate was a further challenge. I felt called to speak to the importance of poetry, the humanities and the arts in our lives.

A Wayne State University and University of Michigan professor has been named the state's third-ever poet laureate ... distinguished professor of African American Studies and an adjunct faculty ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Dr. Fabu Phillis Carter is Madison's first African American Poet Laureate. She held that role from 2008 to 2012. The African American scholar received her last degree from the ...

Weaver said, “Her work helped redefine, in a sense, an aspect of what it means to be an African American poet.” Drawing inspiration and source material from the points of her personal compass ...

Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is ...

To celebrate, we invited poet and Hollins University student ... Spencer says she wrote the poem about Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in ...

She served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995, the youngest person ever to be elected to that office. As the second African-American Poet Laureate, after Gwendolyn Brooks’ tenure in the ...

Melba Joyce Boyd, a distinguished professor, has been named Michigan's third poet laureate ... State University distinguished professor of African American Studies and an adjunct faculty member ...