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

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...

Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish the first-ever Massachusetts poet laureate, according to a statement from the office. Applications have not yet opened for the ...

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

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 ...

Prior to the announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without a poet ...

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

the Northampton poet laureate from 2017 to 2019. "Whenever folks are in an extreme situation, even people who don't ordinarily read poetry, go to poetry — for solace or celebration or protest ...

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 ...

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 ...

The role is unlike any other, it is considered a Civic role, and the laureate acts as an ambassador for the city’s poetry community and the work created in their year can document various events ...