The 24th Poet Laureate of the United States – and the first of Hispanic origin – shares her experience as an ambassador of ...

It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...

Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes ...

When Hermione Malone picks up the phone, she does not pronounce her first name the way we’d come to expect but instead emphasizes the long O sound at the end and leaves out the hard E. That is NOT how ...

Former Governor Juan Babauta fueled the debate for a change of status from a commonwealth when he batted for statehood during his keynote speech iat the 16th commemoration ceremony for the Leadership ...

A proposed timber sale in the Yaak Valley threatens old-growth trees and habitat. Instead, could it become the nation’s first ...

MIKE ORLOCK [email protected] As noted previously in this column, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed the way ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service ... and they would slightly glaze over, or they’d seen American [film and TV] about the probation service, you know, the sort ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

Austin's first Poet Laureate will hold a two-year position to promote poetry, literacy and literary arts in Austin.

Austin has now joined the ranks of Texas cities who have a designated poet laureate.

Oakland voters have a provocative choice in next month's special election for mayor, as longtime former Rep. Barbara Lee ...