Emma Trelles is the 9th Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara (2021-23 ... López, and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), with Beth Martinelli and Helena ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson fell in love with poetry at a tender age, thanks to a poem called "Eletelephony" by Laura Elizabeth Richards, which begins: "Once there was an elephant/Who tried ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - The Rockford Area Pride Committee announced who will be its honorary grand marshals for the 2025 pride parade. Each honorary grand marshal represents one of the three themes: ...

Bird banding operations in Springfield will continue through the end of May. For more information, contact Vern Kleen at [email protected]. Men’s Lenten Breakfast: 8-11 a.m., Hamilton's, 110 N. East ...

In 2018, a bronze statue was unveiled in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks, Illinois Poet Laureate and the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize. At the monument unveiling on Wednesday, June 30 — which ...

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

My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will become Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate. I will be passing the laurels onto him on April 22 at City Hall. Before George’s inauguration, ...

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

Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is ...