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.

Aside from being Clark County’s current poet laureate, Ashley “Ms. AyeVee” Vargas has represented Las Vegas in the ...

When Hermione Malone picks up the phone, she does not pronounce her first name the way we’d come to expect but instead emphasizes the long O sound at the end and leaves out the hard E. That is NOT ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Zion Williamson scored 29 points and CJ McCollum added 18 for New Orleans as the Pelicans surprised the ...

ESPN first reported the deal. Gay played for New Orleans in 2024 after spending the first four seasons of his career with ...

It must have been a dismal childhood that Robert Allen Zimmerman spent in the town of Hibbing in the upper Midwest US state of Minnesota - somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with long dark winters, ...

Devreaux Baker, Mendocino County’s first poet laureate, was about 19 years old when she left her home in Texas with her ...

Schneider as the city’s new Poet Laureate. Schneider will serve a two-year term beginning March 17 and will promote poetry and creative expression throughout the community. As a local resident and ...

New Orleans is a city that loves to celebrate, and whether it’s food, music, culture or nightlife, this city goes all in. There are so many things to do in New Orleans any time of year.

Applications are open for the WHAM Art Center’s 2025-2026 West Valley Youth Poet Laureate competition, which celebrates young poets and their contributions to the arts. “This marks our third year ...

While the search for Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate is in full swing, I took a little time off to catch the last weekend of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and read at the Latter Library’s longstanding ...

FRANKFORT — With the Kentucky River as a backdrop, Kentucky poet laureate Silas House and other environmental advocates spoke out last Tuesday against a bill that would limit state regulation of ...