DAYTON — News Center 7 continues to highlight Black History Month. On Thursday, News Center 7′s Xavier Hershovitz spoke with ...

Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets ...

Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Four years later, she’s helping children find their voice with her new picture ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

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 ...

Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish a poet laureate of Massachusetts. Applications for the position are not yet open, but the eventual appointee will be responsible ...

PROVIDENCE — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University literary arts professor, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As part of his role, Dawes will be charged with “stimulating a greater ...

He was the poet laureate this city never knew it had. We just never realized it because his iconic drawl so seamlessly blended into the background here: whether it was hearing him give the weather ...

Faiz was born near the then British Indian town of Sialkot in 1911. Both were outstanding poets in their languages, focusing their poetry on the oppressed and disenfranchised in their communities.