His life was affected by the tragic deaths of his wife Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill and their daughter, Shura , which he explored years later in Birthday Letters (1998). Hughes was appointed poet ...

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

To celebrate the 150th birthday of Robert Frost ... Pulitzer Prize-finalist Bruce Weigl and San Diego poet laureate Jason Magabo Perez. The poets will read and discuss their work alongside ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is known for her vulnerable storytelling, particularly in her poem "Papa'z ...

The Tompkins County Legislature appointed Dan Rosenberg as the county’s Poet Laureate on Tuesday evening. Rosenberg is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Cornell University and resides in Ithaca with ...

“She was the kind of poet who always responded to the moment,” the writer Edwidge Danticat, who also was born in Haiti, said in an interview. Danticat recalled that at one point while writing ...

Katherine E. Schneider, described as a civically engaged poet, will serve a two-year term to promote creative expression and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum ...