Nancy Miller Gomez is the county’s new poet laureate for 2025-26, having officially been announced to the position at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 28 meeting.

The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

One such piece, a circa-1840 altar screen created by master New Mexican santero José Rafael Aragón, was acquired by the Arts Society in 1928 and is part of 100 Years of Collecting-100 Years of ...

Winnipeg poet Chimwemwe Undi has been named Canada’s 11th parliamentary poet laureate. Winnipeg poet Chimwemwe Undi has been named Canada’s 11th parliamentary poet laureate. Undi, who is also ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

The city of San Diego Thursday named its newest poet laureate, Paola Capó-García, a North Park resident originally from Puerto Rico. Capó-García succeeds Jason Magabo Perez in the two-year ...

For the City of Orlando’s Poet Laureate, Shawn Welcome, he’s using spoken word to inspire and lift up the Central Florida community. He’s no stranger to performing in front of huge crowds.

The North Olympic Library System (NOLS) is excited to announce Nellie Bridge as the next Clallam County Poet Laureate. Bridge will serve from April 2025 through March 2027, succeeding the county’s ...

When he was 13, David Coppin Lanegan’s uncle sent him two books of poems by Rumi and Shamz Tabriz. “I fell in love with these,” Lanegan said.

A Winnipeg poet will serve as Canada's 11th parliamentary poet laureate for the next two years and hopes to encourage more people to engage with the genre. Chimwemwe Undi was selected as the 2025 ...

Winnipeg poet Chimwemwe Undi has been named Canada’s 11th parliamentary poet laureate. Undi, who is also a lawyer at Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, served as Winnipeg’s third poet laureate in ...