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

As the very first U.S. youth poet laureate, a position she earned for ... she's embarked on a national tour across the U.S. She hopes to make poetry accessible to America's young people, and ...

San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin has been awarded Yale University’s prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. The $175,000 literary award aims to provide writers the financial means to focus ...

Aside from being Clark County’s current poet laureate, Ashley “Ms. AyeVee” Vargas has represented Las Vegas in the ...

Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is ...

St. Louis is looking for its next bard. The city offers established poets the chance to be St. Louis' poet laureate. The title has been held by Michael Castro, Jane Ellen Ibur and Shirley LeFlore, and ...

Jim Pillen appointed Omaha author and performer Jewel Rodgers as Nebraska's new state poet. Rodgers ... reading from her poem ...

The West Valley Youth Poet Laureate will collaborate with various city ... and a creative writing sample consisting of three ...

Titled Floral Tribute, the poem is a fitting tribute for Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away aged 96 last Thursday (8 September). The poem – titled Floral Tribute – employs the form of a ...

NORWALK – Katherine E. Schneider, who has been appointed as Norwalk's new poet laureate, said she looks "forward to ...

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 for ...