The State Library of Louisiana announced that Julie Kane, professor emerita of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches was named the winner of the 26th Louisiana Writer Award.

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

By Nehru OdehNobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has said slavery is not yet dead but rife on the African continent. Soyinka made this assertion on Saturday 21 March at the 6th edition of the World ...

Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival returns to Albuquerque for five days this week, drawing over 75 of the top poets and spoken ...

All is set for the 6th Providus Bank World Poetry Day celebration which is set to hold on Friday March 21, in Lagos.

Devreaux Baker, Mendocino County’s first poet laureate, was about 19 years old when she left her home in Texas with her ...

THE atmospheric setting of Liskeard Library transformed into a sanctuary of verse as Poet Laureate Simon Armitage graced the historic Cornish town with his presence. The visit marked another memorable ...

a series organized by Key West Poet Laureate Emily Schulten Weekley. A final workshop for children 10-12 will be held, from 10 a.m to noon, on Saturday, March 15, at Fort East Martello.

Applications are open for the WHAM Art Center’s 2025-2026 West Valley Youth Poet Laureate competition, which celebrates young poets and their contributions to the arts. “This marks our third year ...

Sarwar is a writer, artist and community activist who shares Altadena poet laureate honors with writer ... Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division and Mid-American Arts Alliance.

The American poet laureate position was created in 1937 as the “Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress,” which was later renamed the “poet laureate” by an act of Congress in 1985. Arizona’s ...