His life was affected by the tragic deaths of his wife Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill and their daughter, Shura , which he explored years later in Birthday Letters (1998). Hughes was appointed poet ...

Austin has now joined the ranks of Texas cities who have a designated poet laureate.

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

On March 22, 1929, the California legislature in a joint resolution names a man who spent his boyhood hunting ducks and geese in Sutter County as California’s second poet laureate.

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 ...

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 ...

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

“She was the kind of poet who always responded to the moment,” the writer Edwidge Danticat, who also was born in Haiti, said in an interview. Danticat recalled that at one point while writing ...

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

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum ...