Community members are invited to "tell a story, get a poem" with Coeur d'Alene's first poet laureate, Jennifer Passaro, from ...

Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is known for her vulnerable storytelling, particularly in her poem "Papa'z ...

St. Louis is looking for its next bard. The city offers established poets the chance to be St. Louis' poet laureate. The ...

The award-winning poet died on Feb. 11 in Dorchester at the age of 60. Her friends, students and colleagues share memories ...

The Virginia Festival of the Book will pay tribute to poet Nikki Giovanni with readings, live music and tributes from ...

Laura Tohe, poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, has published books of poetry, oral histories and even librettos for decades, ...

Maw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet who lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. She served as the inaugural ...

Bruce Roseland, South Dakota’s Poet Laureate, has won the 2025 Wrangler Award in Poetry for his epic poem novella, “Earl’s ...

At the age of 7, Ashley Jones dressed as Harriet Tubman and recited lines of Eloise Greenfield's poem about the abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad to her second grade class in ...

Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes began his three-year term as the fourth poet laureate of Jamaica in January, taking on ...