Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet laureate on Jan. 30. While the city’s first poet, Heid Erdrich, served for one ...

The role is unlike any other, it is considered a Civic role, and the laureate acts as an ambassador for the city’s poetry community and the work created in their year can document various events ...

But a small crowd braved the gales and the roads to hear Chris La Tray, Montana’s poet laureate and one of its foremost artistic minds. In this small, shotgun-style three-room cabin — which ...

In 2017, she became the first winner of the National Youth Poet Laureate award. She read “The Hill We Climb,” a poem calling for unity and progress in the U.S. for Biden’s inauguration ...

After her reading and discussion, it was time for the photo opp with all of Santa Barbara’s Poets Laureate. She seemed so happy to be surrounded by poets. She gave me a big hug as if she had known me ...

The queen consort, who met with writer and former Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman during ... first part of her visit to help weather the UK capital's near freezing temperatures.

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By Joanne Kaufman Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty ...

a series organized by Key West Poet Laureate Emily Schulten Weekley. A final workshop for children 6-9 will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 15, at Fort East Martello, while two ...

Spoken-word artist George The Poet has become the patron of a black-led charity he said is “making the poetic voice heard in political conversations”. In his new role, the 34-year-old will ...