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

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

Oakland voters have a provocative choice in next month's special election for mayor, as longtime former Rep. Barbara Lee ...

Since getting into poetry as a teenager, Masaki Takahashi has been performing with a style that bridges the gap between ...

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 ...

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

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said slavery, in its modern form, is not yet dead, but rife on the African continent.

The history of Zanzibar is prevalent in the work of Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, including his new release, ‘Theft’, ...

Aside from being Clark County’s current poet laureate, Ashley “Ms. AyeVee” Vargas has represented Las Vegas in the ...

As an English and creative writing professor at UAA for nearly 25 years, Sexton spurred young writers to chase opportunity ...

On March 22, 1929, the California legislature in a joint resolution names a man who spent his boyhood hunting ducks and geese in Sutter County as California’s second poet laureate.

Mayor Linda Gorton was on hand Wednesday at Lexington's Carnegie Center to unveil the April theme for the year-long 250 Lex ...