There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

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

Patti Smith’s groundbreaking debut has influenced generations of musicians. But it took a producer four years to persuade ...

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 ...

On March 22, 1929, the California legislature in a joint resolution names a man who spent his boyhood hunting ducks and geese in Sutter County as California’s second poet laureate.

Holy Week event brings together writers and artists from Ireland and Great Britain in unique free celebration of the work of ...

Though yet to be officially released to the market, The Man Died, written by Bode Asiyanbi, directed by Awam Amkpa and ...

Simon And Garfunkel sang April Come She Will, and it seems that she is, in fact, coming around once again. And London is looking a bit brighter now; with some colours on the trees and a hell of a lot ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago just announced its 2025-26 season, including two new shows by Chicago pioneers: Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young.

The Master of the King’s or Queen’s Music is a post in the Royal Household, similar to that of Poet Laureate, granted to an ...

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 ...