Columnist Rick Magee is searching for his successor as poet laureate of Bethel. 'The small world of poetry is filled with ...

For Wang, that connection between the written or spoken word and community action is key to what he wants to accomplish in his term as national youth poet laureate. “I think poetry is so powerful ...

Durango is getting its own Poet Laureate, a poet officially hired by a government or institution to write poems for special events and occasions. In fact, the city is getting two laureates. The ...

Regie Gibson, a spoken word poet whose work often addresses social and historical themes with humor and hope, has been selected to serve as Massachusetts’s inaugural poet laureate, Governor ...

As a poet, playwright, performer, and educator, Genny Lim shines a light on the Asian American experience. But the native San Franciscan never expected to be in the spotlight as the city's first ...

Tucson poet laureate TC Tolbert was awarded $100,000 from the Academy of American Poets to create poetry programs in Tucson. Tolbert was one of 13 U.S. poets laureate selected.

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime ...

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The Texas Legislature has named University of Houston professor Kevin Prufer as the 2026 Texas State Poet Laureate, one of the highest artistic honors in the Lone Star State. “I am delighted and ...

Rita Dove, the winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book “Thomas and Beulah,” served as U.S. poet laureate from 1993 to 1995. She was a professor of creative writing at ASU ...

NEW YORK, May 3, 2025 — At Asia Society’s Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) 2025, Youth Poet Laureate winners read their winning pieces. Poets include Fatima Ahmad, NYC Youth Poet Laureate 2023-2024; ...