Award winning dance theatre company and Sadler's Wells National Partner Company balletLORENT will present a dance theatre ...

Poet and performer Roger McGough is to return to the stage for a new show. The 87-year-old, who has written more than 100 poetry books for adults and children, will perform his latest show, Alive and ...

Carol Ann Duffy, then serving as the first woman poet laureate of England, had her eye on events across the pond when she wrote “Swearing In”, published in her 2018 collection, Sincerity.

But Zoccola’s project was probably more influenced by the gritty working-class truth-telling of contemporary poets like Diane Seuss and the antic daring of those like Carol Ann Duffy ...

The tradition goes back to the 17th century. Carol Ann Duffy became the first woman nominated as poet laureate when she was appointed in 2009. She composed poems for Prince William’s wedding in ...

Carol Ann Duffy is another boundary-breaking pioneer, being the first female poet laureate, the first Scottish-born poet and the first lesbian poet to hold the Laureate position. She was appointed ...

Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish the first-ever Massachusetts poet laureate, according to a statement from the office. Applications have not yet opened for the ...

Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet laureate on Jan. 30. While the city’s first poet, Heid Erdrich, served for one ...

In partnership with Culture Works, the City of Dayton will soon announce its first poet laureate. A media event is planned for 10 a.m. Friday at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, where the ...

the Northampton poet laureate from 2017 to 2019. "Whenever folks are in an extreme situation, even people who don't ordinarily read poetry, go to poetry — for solace or celebration or protest ...

Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time. "Poets and poetry have had a profound role in our state's history ...