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 ...

As an English and creative writing professor at UAA for nearly 25 years, Sexton spurred young writers to chase opportunity ...

Sexton died this month at age 84, leaving a legacy as a prolific poet, an influential instructor ... and he even was the chair of the philosophy department for a time. "He was a wonderful ...

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on roll calls from recent debate on the House rules. There were no ...

When Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel laureate, died in 2013, his last words were sent by text message. Minutes before ...

Wor-Wic Community College is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with special events to mark the big occasion.

“There’s never been a more important time to reflect on and celebrate the birth of our country,” said Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, Chair of the Maine Semiquincentennial ... read by Portland ...

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

Austin's first Poet Laureate will hold a two-year position to promote poetry, literacy and literary arts in Austin.