Princess Dumbuya, Franklin High School’s first Poet Laureate, reads from her book at the June 10 publishing party. Princess ...

From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly’s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Evan Wang, a graduating senior at Upper Merion Area High School, has been ...

Marmots aren’t the only local wildlife Sheffield has written about. “I am as much a naturalist as I am a poet,” said ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo recently published her latest children’s book titled “For A Girl Becoming.” KUNM spoke with Harjo, who said she wrote the book as an advice poem for her first ...

A spoken-word poet whose work explores themes of history and hope, Gibson sees his art as ‘a means of bringing people together,’ governor says ...

Growing up in the foster care system, Pacia Anderson did not understand herself or feel understood by those entrusted with ...

with cowboy poetry from Oklahoma Poet Laureate Jay Snider. “You’ll know what kind of feller you are dealing with when I tell you I rode bulls for 25 years,” Snider said. “It wasn’t too ...

She was the Winnipeg poet laureate for 2023 and 2024. She won the 2022 John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards and her work can be found in Brick, Border Crossings ...

Mark Gibbons grew up in a poetic household, one where poems were the harsh narratives of a working class family. He describes his parents as painfully honest … to a fault. “With my old man, if ...