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 ...

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

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

Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd, BA ’71, MA ‘72, a celebrated poet and author, was named Michigan’s third poet laureate. The announcement, made in February by the Michigan Department of Education and the Library ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The New Mexico Poet Laureate Program is a partnership between New Mexico Arts and the New Mexico State ...

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.

"The festival last year was attended by 300 people," said Paula Curci, co-producer of the festival and a Nassau County poet laureate emerita. "The poetry community on Long Island is alive and ...

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