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

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

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 ...

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

The role is 27 years old and is managed by Syntax Poetry, who are a collective of poets and creatives based in and around Peterborough. The final had 13 competitors, at the Poet Laureate Award ...

Santa Cruz County has a new artistic ambassador who will spend the next year highlighting poetry and literary arts, including readings at county functions. In other words, Nancy Miller Gomez has her ...

Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 ... Africa and North America. Professor Dawes is the recipient of numerous awards and honours ...

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

2024 -The following is a 2025 poem written by the current poet laureate, Lilyan Thomas entitled “Thoughts from a Journalist.” Every waking hour, the clock ticks slowly Having the whole world around me ...