For the first time in its history, Massachusetts is going to name a state poet laureate. The appointee will be in charge of ...

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

Ada Limón has been the United States Poet Laureate since 2022. At the time of her appointment, she’d published six books. She was born on March 28, 1976, in Sonoma, California. US poet Ada ...

Johnson, an artist, educator, poet and community organizer deeply rooted in Newark, was selected for the role by a 15-member ...

cultural periodicals and newspapers in the United States and Europe. She was named the Kresge Eminent Artist in 2023. “I am honored and excited being named the poet laureate of Michigan,” Boyd ...

Katherine E. Schneider, described as a civically engaged poet, will serve a two-year term to promote creative expression and ...

St. Louis is looking for its next bard. The city offers established poets the chance to be St. Louis' poet laureate. The title has been held by Michael Castro, Jane Ellen Ibur and Shirley LeFlore, and ...

The longtime Central Texas creative with experience in poetry and theater was named to the new position in March.

When Carolyn Cushing began her term as Easthampton’s poet laureate, she and her fellow poets turned heads by staging a poetry reading in the parking lot of a local supermarket. “We were there ...

has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is known for her vulnerable storytelling, particularly in her poem "Papa'z Song," which explores her relationship with her absent father.