The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...

Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet ...

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 ...

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

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.

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...

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

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

Prior to the announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without a poet ...

A poet laureate is a person appointed by a government who will compose poems presented at special occasions and events. “The City of Dayton’s poet laureate will serve a two-ye ...

Daniel Johnson — executive director of Mass Poetry, which supported the Massachusetts Cultural Council in cementing the position — said having a state poet laureate has been “a long time ...

Montana's poet laureate doesn't pull punches — on anything. But his unfiltered nature and commitment to appearing in the ...