CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Academy of American Poets has awarded Cincinnati poet Manuel Iris a prestigious national award.

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

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

The State Library of Louisiana announced that Julie Kane, professor emerita of English at Northwestern State University in ...

Sexton retired at UAA in 1994 and was named Alaska’s Poet Laureate in 1995 ... when he retired in 1994 that he started putting out a book every other year. He’s written dozens of books ...

San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin has been awarded Yale University’s prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. The $175,000 literary award aims to provide writers the financial means to focus ...

In his books, Berkshire poet David Giannini addresses nature, its connection with the people who love or despoil it, and the connections among those people. He looks up close and ranges far and wide, ...

On March 22, 1929, the California legislature in a joint resolution names a man who spent his boyhood hunting ducks and geese in Sutter County as California’s second poet laureate.

He also asked for performers to have their phones or books ready by the time they ... the craft that led him to the title of Lansing Poet Laureate in 2019, a role he recently passed to Ruelaine ...

Beginning on World Poetry Day and running through May, the Sierra Poetry Festival is supported by a months’ long fringe festival. Full of pop-up poetry events of all varieties and styles, most are ...

A new bill in the Florida Legislature could make it easier to remove books from schools. The bill would define any material depicting nudity or sexual content as harmful to minors, regardless of ...