Governor JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker announced an open call for poets statewide to apply to be considered as the ...

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

Chimwemwe Undi will serve as Canada’s 11th parliamentary poet laureate for the next two years and hopes to encourage more ...

Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the ...

Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish the first-ever Massachusetts poet laureate, according to a statement from the office. Applications have not yet opened for the ...

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...

Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of ...

In partnership with Culture Works, the City of Dayton will soon announce its first poet laureate. A media event is planned for 10 a.m. Friday at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, where the ...

Sierra Leone will serve as the first poet laureate for the City of Dayton, officials announced Friday in a media event at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Visitor Center.

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

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