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

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 ...

Earlier this year, city officials announced that Newark was launching a search for a new poet laureate. The position is ...

Amanda Gorman, the former National Youth Poet Laureate who gained attention when she read at President Biden’s 2021 inauguration, offered a new poem Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention.

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 ...

With her performance of The Hill We Climb, America’s youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman stole ... has become such a destructive presence in American politics. “We lay down our arms so we ...

Long Beach will soon get its first youth poet laureate, with the inaugural program ... is available on Long Beach’s website. American Airlines to discontinue all flights out of Long Beach ...

will select up to two youth poet laureates and an adult poet laureate. Once selected, these poets will serve as poetry ambassadors to the city of Eureka for a two-year period. To be eligible ...