The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...
Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...
Governor Healey signed an executive order on Monday creating Massachusett’s first poet laureate role in history.
Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the honorary position, which is intended to promote poetry and creative ...
Massachusetts was one of three states — along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania — to not have an established state poet laureate. More than a dozen municipalities had poet laureates of their ...
Danielle Legros Georges, a writer and teacher who was born in Haiti and served as Boston's poet laureate under Mayor Martin J ...
Prior to the announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without a poet ...
Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.
A program of Sundog Poetry in collaboration with Urban Word, Clemmons Family Farm, Ruth Stone House, and Young Writers ...
Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...