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 ...

Ohio Poet Laureate Amit Majmudar, Cave Canem Award winner Ruth Ellen Kocher and Donald Justice Poetry Prize-winner Ryan Wilson. Morning events, including workshops and roundtables, will be held at ...

The Tompkins County Legislature appointed Dan Rosenberg as the county’s Poet Laureate on Tuesday evening. Rosenberg is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Cornell University and resides in Ithaca with ...

What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty in storytelling.

The Friends of Lorine Niedecker and Write On, Door County have announced Ohio poet Caryl Pagel as the recipient of the 2025 ...

Jon Hendricks, singer, lyricist, and drummer, was born in 1921 in Newark, Ohio. Called "the Poet Laureate of Jazz" by jazz critic and historian Leonard Feather, Hendricks has earned the sobriquet ...

Nancy Miller Gomez, a pioneering figure in bringing poetry to the incarcerated, has been named Santa Cruz County's new poet laureate, to serve a two-year term through the end of 2026.