Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning. Sutphen, 71, is the state’s second poet laureate, ...

Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet ...

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...

In partnership with Culture Works, the City of Dayton will soon announce its first poet laureate. A media event is planned for 10 a.m. Friday at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, where the ...

Governor JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker announced an open call for poets statewide to apply to be considered as the ...

Danielle Legros Georges, a writer and teacher who was born in Haiti and served as Boston's poet laureate under Mayor Martin J ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Governor Healey signed an executive order on Monday creating Massachusett’s first poet laureate role in history ... voice to the unseen, helps us make sense of the unspeakable ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The City of Dayton has selected its first-ever poet laureate. Sierra Leona will serve as Dayton’s first poet laureate. Leone is an educator, award-winning producer and ...

Mass Poetry has 12,000 current members and has held its annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival since its inception in 2008. Johnson said he hopes the person chosen as the state poet laureate can ...

Sierra Leone will serve as the first poet laureate for the City of Dayton, officials announced Friday in a media event at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Visitor Center.