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

The arts are often written off as worthless, or certainly not worth the federal funding that they receive. But young poets ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Governor Maura Healey, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Mass Cultural Council and Mass Humanities announced that ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

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

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

I hope to make poetry accessible to folks who think poetry ... In the coming months, he plans to introduce the idea of a poet laureate, a role that goes back to to John Dryden in England in ...

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 ...

New Mexico residents ages 21 and older can apply for the third poet laureate term, running July 1 through June 30, 2028. All ...