The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...

Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet ...

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...

Montana's poet laureate doesn't pull punches — on anything. But his unfiltered nature and commitment to appearing in the ...

Michael Doucet is breaking out his fiddle to join former Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith in a first-ever ...

Ashley M. Jones, the Poet Laureate of Alabama, looks forward to sharing her poetry as part of the Hoag Lecture Series at the ...

The 20th-century poet William Carlos Willams wrote in his poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower:" “It is difficult/to get the ...

Danielle Legros Georges, a writer and teacher who was born in Haiti and served as Boston's Poet Laureate under Mayor Martin J. Walsh, died on Feb. 11 at her home in Dorchester, according to a post ...

The City of Dayton has selected its first-ever poet laureate. Sierra Leona will serve as Dayton’s first poet laureate. Leone is an educator, award-winning ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on ...

Peterborough’s new Poet Laureate for 2025 Alex Tyler has described the moment he was crowned as “utterly humbling”.