A woman who has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison and Santa Cruz County jails and racked up dozens of prestigious ...
Danielle Legros Georges, a writer and teacher who was born in Haiti and served as the city’s poet laureate under Mayor Martin J. Walsh, died on Feb. 11 at her home in Dorchester. She was 59.
A native of the Scarboro community, Rose Weaver has dedicated her life to education, advocacy and preserving Black history in Oak Ridge.
"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Har­jo will share her poetry, story-telling, and personal activism at San Joaquin Valley Town Hall on ...
The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...
DELAWARE- Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou- names we recognize when it comes to African American poets. Local ...
Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet ...
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, is an invited featured poet at the University of Bayreuth ...