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

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 ...

Iris, born in 1983, has an impressive literary and educational background. He served as Poet Laureate of Cincinnati and has been Writer-in-Residence at both the Cincinnati and Hamilton County ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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"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 ...

It’s that confidence, skill and care for the craft that led him to the title of Lansing Poet Laureate in 2019, a role he recently passed to Ruelaine Stokes in 2024. Lansing’s poet laureate is ...

Justin Festge Russell (left), Madison’s current Youth Poet Laureate, and City of Madison Poet Laureate Steven Espada Dawson (Photo supplied.) The Madison Arts Commission and Madison Poet Laureate ...