The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

Poetry is a vessel for greater understanding in the same way that a voice is a vessel for language,” Price said.

Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is known for her vulnerable storytelling, particularly in her poem "Papa'z ...

Community members are invited to "tell a story, get a poem" with Coeur d'Alene's first poet laureate, Jennifer Passaro, from ...

St. Louis is looking for its next bard. The city offers established poets the chance to be St. Louis' poet laureate. The ...

Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes began his three-year term as the fourth poet laureate of Jamaica in January, taking on ...

The Virginia Festival of the Book will pay tribute to poet Nikki Giovanni with readings, live music and tributes from ...

Bruce Roseland, South Dakota’s Poet Laureate, has won the 2025 Wrangler Award in Poetry for his epic poem novella, “Earl’s ...

Maw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet who lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. She served as the inaugural ...

The award-winning poet died on Feb. 11 in Dorchester at the age of 60. Her friends, students and colleagues share memories ...

As Lauren Camp's tenure as New Mexico's Poet Laureate draws to a close, she reflects on the cultural influences that have ...