Santa Cruz County has a new artistic ambassador who will spend the next year highlighting poetry and literary arts, including readings at county functions. In other words, Nancy Miller Gomez has her ...

Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England’s next poet laureate ... His own life is cramped by book reviewing (London Daily Telegraph), a trade he ...

Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Montana's poet laureate doesn't pull punches — on anything. But his unfiltered nature and commitment to appearing in the ...

Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning. Sutphen, 71, is the state’s second poet laureate, ...

Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet ...

Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish the first-ever Massachusetts poet laureate ... Black and enslaved people to publish a book of poems. She learned English and history ...

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

In partnership with SPL, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here" in April, which is National Poetry Month.

The North Park resident says she hopes to work with local schools to incorporate more poetry into their curriculums and host ...