Nancy Miller Gomez is the county's new poet laureate for 2025-26, having officially been announced to the position at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors' Jan. 28 meeting.

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

whether current or going back to the beginning. When he first talked to Mayor Andy Ezard about being poet laureate, Ezard "kind of just said, ‘I want to honor you in this way’ — which was ...

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

In partnership with Culture Works, the City of Dayton will soon announce its first poet laureate. A media event is planned for 10 a.m. Friday at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, where the ...

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 ...

Mass Poetry has 12,000 current members and has held its annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival since its inception in 2008. Johnson said he hopes the person chosen as the state poet laureate can ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The City of Dayton has selected its first-ever poet laureate. Sierra Leona will serve as Dayton’s first poet laureate. Leone is an educator, award-winning producer and ...

Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time. “Poets and poetry have had a profound role in our state’s history ...