This story has been updated. Another image has been added. For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did not exist.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s that confidence, skill and care for the craft that led him to the title of Lansing Poet Laureate in 2019, a role he recently passed to Ruelaine Stokes in 2024. Lansing’s poet laureate is ...

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"The festival last year was attended by 300 people," said Paula Curci, co-producer of the festival and a Nassau County poet laureate emerita. "The poetry community on Long Island is alive and ...

Kansas Poet Laureate Tracy Brimhall will be at the Iola Public Library at 7 p.m. Thursday (April 3) with “Memory Feast,” a program which unites the state’s agricultural roots with the literary arts.