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

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

Sutphen, 71, is the state’s second poet laureate ... list of expected activities. DeMarais said the team did extensive research to see how Minnesota’s guidelines fit in with other states.

In partnership with Culture Works, the City of Dayton will soon announce its first poet laureate. A media event ... throughout the City of Dayton,” states a release from Culture Works.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order establishing the Commonwealth's first-ever poet laureate.

Massachusetts was one of three states — along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania — to not have an established state poet laureate. More than a dozen municipalities had poet laureates of their ...

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

Among them, poet Alice Kociemba, who lives in Falmouth, Mass. "Other New England states had a poet laureate but [not] Massachusetts, and given the rich background, it just seemed odd to me ...