Gov. Jim Pillen appointed Omaha author and performer Jewel Rodgers as Nebraska's new state poet. Rodgers, 27, is the youngest ...

Being chosen as our nation’s first African-American poet laureate was a further challenge. I felt called to speak to the importance of poetry, the humanities and the arts in our lives.

A Wayne State University and University of Michigan professor has been named the state's third-ever poet laureate ... distinguished professor of African American Studies and an adjunct faculty ...

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

Weaver said, “Her work helped redefine, in a sense, an aspect of what it means to be an African American poet.” Drawing inspiration and source material from the points of her personal compass ...

To celebrate, we invited poet and Hollins University student ... Spencer says she wrote the poem about Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in ...

Austin's first Poet Laureate will hold a two-year position to promote poetry, literacy and literary arts in Austin.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes ... This series has helped talented African poets to get their start and showcase their work to a large ...

She served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995, the youngest person ever to be elected to that office. As the second African-American Poet Laureate, after Gwendolyn Brooks’ tenure in the ...