What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd, a distinguished professor, has been named Michigan's third poet laureate. Boyd is an award-winning author with 13 published books and a passion for promoting poetry.

While the search for Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate is in full swing, I took a little time off to catch the last weekend of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and read at the Latter Library’s longstanding ...

Junauda Petrus, Poet Laureate for the city of Minneapolis and author of the children’s book, “Can We Please Give the Police to the Grandmothers?”, poses for a portrait in the Kling Public ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth ...