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

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony elevated him to the status of Homer and is "a major source on Greek ...

Since then, the city created a special committee of arts and cultural groups to select their first poet for the position. Leone has a history of works to empower local communities and speak to the ...

Looking back at her first poems (including this one), she likened their careful rhymes and regular meters to “asbestos gloves” insulating her from “materials I couldn’t pick up barehanded.” ...

Devreaux Baker, Mendocino County’s first poet laureate, was about 19 years old when she left her home in Texas with her ...

only one of her poems, a ballad called "Bars Fight," has survived. In 1756, Lucy Terry married Abijah Prince, a prosperous free black man who purchased her freedom. Their first child was born the ...