The eighth Washington state poet laureate is Wenatchee’s own poet and professor Derek Sheffield. During his two-year term as ...

With poets laureate from Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Prince Edward Island, 492 poems in downtown windows, 19 events, ...

This Friday, you may just run into Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday at Proof Lancaster, or Sylvia Plath at the Lancaster Art ...

Acclaimed poet and Detroit’s first official Poet Laureate in over two decades, Jessica Care Moore, will deliver her inaugural ...

Governor Maura Healey, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Mass Cultural Council and Mass Humanities announced that ...

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

Boston-based writer Porsha Olayiwola is the spring artist-in-residence for Michigan State University’s Womxn of Color ...

Poets came together in Dorchester to support Palestinians suffering from the war between Israel and Hamas. An evening of poetry in solidarity with Palestine was held at the popular Dorchester ...

A life-sized statue of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner sitting on a bench is being proposed for Dorchester's main shopping ... The writer and poet lived in Dorset with her partner, poet Valentine ...

A mock-up submitted with the planning application shows how the statue would look A life-sized statue of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner sitting on a bench is being proposed for Dorchester's main ...

Altadena Co-Poet Laureate Sehba Sarwar (she/her) is a novelist (Black Wings, Veliz Books, 2019) and poet published in Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature, Poetry in English from Pakistan, Callaloo, and ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...