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

San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin has been awarded Yale University’s prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. The $175,000 literary award aims to provide writers the financial means to focus ...

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.

But clues can be found in the figure of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet who, in the early 20th century, founded the Futurist movement and later contributed to the founding of fascism.

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 ...

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 ...

Natasha Trethewey, a former U.S. poet laureate, will discuss her memoir, 'House of Being,' on April 3 for the conference. Photo by Jill Norton Preceding the panel is a welcome lunch hosted by the ...

Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is known for her vulnerable storytelling, particularly in her poem "Papa'z ...