Former Cincinnati Poet Laureate wins national award
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Academy of American Poets has awarded Cincinnati poet Manuel Iris a prestigious national award.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES: USC Aiken celebrates major book launch
A very unusual installment of the Oswald Distinguished Writers Series is planned for Tuesday, April 1. That night, on the ...
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Beacon Resident Named Poet Laureate
Dutchess County announced on Tuesday (March 25) that it has named Beacon resident Ruth Danon as its 2025 poet laureate to ...
The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
Former NSU professor & Louisiana Poet Laureate wins 26th Louisiana Writer Award
The State Library of Louisiana announced that Julie Kane, professor emerita of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches was named the winner of the 26th Louisiana Writer Award.
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“The Voice of the Black Writer”: Remembering Val Gray Ward’s Cultural Revolution
Val Gray Ward was a force of nature – a groundbreaking actress and fearless matriarch of the Black Arts Movement. Founder of the Kuumba Theatre Company in Chicago, IL, her work was crucial in ...
'Push the boundaries': Literacy advocate Zell Miller III is Austin's first poet laureate
For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...