It's taken a long time to bring Silas House to Oak Ridge. He's a bestselling novelist, Kentucky's poet laureate, a Berea College instructor, and more.

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

Iris, born in 1983, has an impressive literary and educational background. He served as Poet Laureate of Cincinnati and has been Writer-in-Residence at both the Cincinnati and Hamilton County ...

My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will become Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate. I will be passing the laurels onto him on April 22 at City Hall. Before George’s inauguration, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tompkins County's new poet laureate is Dr. Dan Rosenberg. Rosenberg is the author of the poetry collections Bassinet, Thigh’s ...

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This was also true of Friedman’s last two records, but the contemplation of loss and mortality cuts closer to the bone on ...

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.

The following editorial is from the opinion page of The Republican newspaper in Springfield. It reflects views of the newspaper’s leadership and not necessarily those of MassLive.com. Readers ...