The State Library of Louisiana announced that Julie Kane, professor emerita of English at Northwestern State University in ...

The first to fill that position, administered by the Austin Public Library for a two-year term, is veteran theater artist and ...

She was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate in 2019. She is also the winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Creative Nonfiction and the American Book Award. In addition to Crazy Brave, she ...

LARRY CAMERON photo Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin, a former United States poet laureate, died Friday in his sleep at his Peahi home, where he lived for about four decades.

"I believe poetry offers us valuable opportunities ... Press in 2006 and honored as the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by former U.S Laureate Jean Valentine.

Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is known for her ... the audience plays a crucial role in determining the ...

Margie “Mia X” Johnson has been named Newark’s first poet laureate, Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced on March 12. The newly created position, which will be filled every two years, aims to ...