CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Academy of American Poets has awarded Cincinnati poet Manuel Iris a prestigious national award.

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The State Library of Louisiana announced that Julie Kane, professor emerita of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches was named the winner of the 26th Louisiana Writer Award.

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

As an English and creative writing professor at UAA for nearly 25 years, Sexton spurred young writers to chase opportunity ...

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.

(OSV News) -- "A poet's worldview and beliefs influence everything he or she writes. Sometimes, those beliefs are stated in ...

A high-tech analysis of manuscripts by poet Alfred Tennyson have turned up marks and text that cannot be seen by the naked ...

Hometown star: Residents of Needham, where NASA astronaut Sunita Williams was raised, watched as she splashed down to Earth ...