Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet laureate on Jan. 30. While the city’s first poet, Heid Erdrich, served for one ...

The role is unlike any other, it is considered a Civic role, and the laureate acts as an ambassador for the city’s poetry community and the work created in their year can document various events ...

After her reading and discussion, it was time for the photo opp with all of Santa Barbara’s Poets Laureate. She seemed so happy to be surrounded by poets. She gave me a big hug as if she had known me ...

Nellie Bridge of Sequim will serve as Clallam County’s next poet laureate, stepping into the two-year position ... Bridge’s themes often explore the ideas of identity, place, experience and the desire ...

Applications for the annual Tremont Writers Conference will be accepted through May 15. The conference will be held Oct. 22-26.

The Staffordshire Poet Laureate runs poetry events and encourages more people in Staffordshire to enjoy poetry and creative writing. The Laureate also acts as an ambassador for Staffordshire, ...

The 20th-century poet William Carlos Willams wrote in his poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower:” “It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is ...

Collingwood's poet laureate for nearly three years, Jillian Morris, has announced the release of her first book of poetry called "born, genes, and quash." The book is a collection of poems that ...

Just a short list of the luminaries who graced the forum’s stage is staggering to consider: former U.S Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, novelists Kurt Vonnegut and John Updike, Oscar and Emmy-award ...