The 24th Poet Laureate of the United States – and the first of Hispanic origin – shares her experience as an ambassador of ...

This time last year, Canton native and former North Carolina poet Laureate Fred Chappell passed away; however, this year, his ...

“As a child, I was just fascinated by the world around me, and I always felt weird,” said Jaki Shelton Green, now 71 and North Carolina’s first African American poet laureate. “I would sit ...