The Greeks had Homer, the Romans had Virgil, and Knoxville has its Poets Laureate. The Arts & Culture Alliance is accepting ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

Poet laureate Simon Armitage has welcomed the news that the government is investing £5m into the development of the National ...

A native of the Scarboro community, Rose Weaver has dedicated her life to education, advocacy and preserving Black history in ...

A woman who has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison and Santa Cruz County jails and racked up dozens of prestigious ...

A new National Poetry Centre, spearheaded by Professor of Poetry and Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, is to receive a ...

DELAWARE- Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou- names we recognize when it comes to African American poets. Local ...

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Har­jo will share her poetry, story-telling, and personal activism at San Joaquin Valley Town Hall on ...

Nancy Miller Gomez is the county’s new poet laureate for 2025-26, having officially been announced to the position at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 28 meeting.

Ashley M. Jones, the Poet Laureate of Alabama, looks forward to sharing her poetry as part of the Hoag Lecture Series at the ...

Mike Jurkovic, published poet, music critic, and Wallkill resident, has been appointed as the 2025 Ulster County Poet Laureate, according to an announcement from Ulster County ...

Michael Doucet is breaking out his fiddle to join former Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith in a first-ever ...