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

The City of Dayton has selected its first-ever poet laureate. Sierra Leona will serve as Dayton’s first poet laureate. Leone ...

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

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

Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...

Governor JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker announced an open call for poets statewide to apply to be considered as the ...

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the ...

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

Prior to the announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without a poet ...

Chimwemwe Undi will serve as Canada’s 11th parliamentary poet laureate for the next two years and hopes to encourage more ...