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

This Friday, you may just run into Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday at Proof Lancaster, or Sylvia Plath at the Lancaster Art ...

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.

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 ...

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

With poets laureate from Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Prince Edward Island, 492 poems in downtown windows, 19 events, ...

The first to fill that position, administered by the Austin Public Library for a two-year term, is veteran theater artist and ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

As part of our series Where Poetry Lives, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey joins Jeffrey Brown to… "It's not just about the work on the page, it's about where you put your feet when you get out ...

Acclaimed poet and Detroit’s first official Poet Laureate in over two decades, Jessica Care Moore, will deliver her inaugural ...