Tompkins County appointed its 12th Poet Laureate on Tuesday. Find out who he is and what the position entails.

Dr. Fabu Phillis Carter is Madison's first African American poet laureate joining News 3 Now to share poetry and literary art ...

Coming up at 9 a.m. on Thursday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with the newly appointed Poet Laureate for the city of ...

Gov. Maura T. Healey signed an executive order creating the first-ever poet laureate of Massachusetts earlier this month.

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.

Volunteers from the Hudson Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross provided immediate emergency aid to two people after a fire early Saturday morning on Montgomery Street in Walden. The Red ...

"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." ...

A woman who has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison and Santa Cruz County jails and racked up dozens of prestigious ...

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Har­jo will share her poetry, story-telling, and personal activism at San Joaquin Valley Town Hall on ...

Tennessee Shakespeare Company will host its 16th annual Children’s Literacy Gala in May, “American Celebrity Poetry-Slam” ...

DELAWARE- Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou- names we recognize when it comes to African American poets. Local ...

A native of the Scarboro community, Rose Weaver has dedicated her life to education, advocacy and preserving Black history in ...