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

On March 22, 1929, the California legislature in a joint resolution names a man who spent his boyhood hunting ducks and geese in Sutter County as California’s second poet laureate.

The arts are often written off as worthless, or certainly not worth the federal funding that they receive. But young poets ...

Sexton died this month at age 84, leaving a legacy as a prolific poet, an influential instructor and an initiator of literary platforms in the state ... Alaska’s Poet Laureate in 1995, a ...

Sexton died this month at age 84, leaving a legacy as a prolific poet, an influential instructor and an initiator of literary platforms in the state ... about his home and youth in Lowell.

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

Beyond my work with young people across the country, the institute and the Phoenix-area creative community also helped me co-found the Phoenix Youth Poet Laureate ... of our state, from urban ...

Oakland’s Youth Poet Laureate Ella Gordon recited a powerful ... You need someone with local, state, regional, national and international relationships with other lawmakers, the public and ...