Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...
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 ...
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 ...
It began as a mystery. Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate of the United States Rita Dove was having a quiet evening at home watching television with her husband when they noticed ...
Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.
Prior to the announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without a poet ...
She is also the inspiration behind a new volume of poetry by Rita Dove, a former U.S. poet laureate and winner ... high school graduates in the United States that year. She graduated summa cum ...
A program of Sundog Poetry in collaboration with Urban Word, Clemmons Family Farm, Ruth Stone House, and Young Writers ...
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. “Today, we make history ...
Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...