The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

The City of Newark is accepting applications for its inaugural Poet Laureate position, Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced. The Poet Laureate will serve a two-year term starting this year with the goal ...