The eighth Washington state poet laureate is Wenatchee’s own poet and professor Derek Sheffield. During his two-year term as ...

April is National Poetry Month, and the city offers residents dozens of events to inspire their poetic creativity.

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

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

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

Country icon Emmylou Harris, a PEEP-inspired art show and an Earth Day river clean up are coming to Milwaukee this month.

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

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Liberal MP Darren Fisher called out a staged photo op at the Dartmouth cenotaph by right-wing activist Jeremy MacKenzie as an insult to those who fought and sacrificed for Canada. DFO claims it can ...

A Manx poet, actor, and playwright has received the Isle of Man's top cultural award. Annie Kissack has been awarded the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan, or Manannan's Choice of the Year, by Culture Vannin.

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

One of the blueprints for imperialism has always been The Aeneid, by the Roman poet Virgil, working between 29 and 19 BC. It tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan leader on the run with his son ...