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

Aside from being Clark County’s current poet laureate, Ashley “Ms. AyeVee” Vargas has represented Las Vegas in the ...

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 ...

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

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

A U.S Army veteran who had his first poem published at age six was on hand Tuesday afternoon to read from his published works ...

Austin has now joined the ranks of Texas cities who have a designated poet laureate.

The longtime Central Texas creative with experience in poetry and theater was named to the new position in March.

$35–$65. Fifth-generation Washingtonian Michele Evans was nominated for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award for purl, her first full-length poetry collection. It’s a remarkable debut, with Evans ...

A bronze plaque inscribed with "The New Colossus" — a poem by Jewish-American poet and activist Emma Lazarus — was added to the pedestal in 1903, memorializing the famous phrase: "Give me your ...

For the first time in its history, Massachusetts is going to name a state poet laureate. The appointee will be in charge of ...

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