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

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

Austin's first Poet Laureate will hold a two-year position to promote poetry, literacy and literary arts in Austin.

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will become Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate. I will be passing the laurels onto ...

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

Melba Joyce Boyd, BA ’71, MA ‘72, a celebrated poet and author, was named Michigan’s third poet laureate. The announcement ... The author of 13 books, including “Death Dance of a Butterfly” and “Roses ...

Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate ... who recently released her book "Rewind - A Cathartic Autobiography" has been ...

Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes began his three-year term as the fourth poet laureate of Jamaica in January ... Dawes, who began teaching at Brown in fall 2024, has published over 30 books of ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

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