Danielle Legros Georges, a writer and teacher who was born in Haiti and served as Boston's Poet Laureate under Mayor Martin J. Walsh, died on Feb. 11 at her home in Dorchester, according to a post ...

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

Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the honorary position, which is intended to promote poetry and creative ...

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, ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, we shine a light on individuals like Shelly Conley—a poet, performer, author, and youth ...

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

Prior to the announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without a poet ...

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

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 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African ...

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

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 ...