At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, the city announced its first poet laureate with a unanimous yes for Michelle ...

Longtime ‘Independent’ contributor joins a “League of Laureates” that includes Melinda Palacio, Emma Trelles, Laure-Anne ...

Junauda Petrus, the second poet laureate of Minneapolis, plans to bring poetry to barber shops, buses and community spaces ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - The 2025 Great Lakes Poetry Festival continues in Marquette this week. On Tuesday night, former ...

A North Salinas High School student has been named the 2025 and 2026 Monterey County Youth Poet Laureate for the Arts Council for Monterey County. She officially begins her term on May 1. Her duties ...

George Yatchisin George Yatchisin is slated to be Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate, the County of Arts and Culture, in partnership with ...

Ada Limón was born and raised in California. She is Mexican-American and the first Latina poet laureate, which is a milestone ...

Mayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture announced Thursday, April 17, that Oppong-Yeboah will be the ...

Gov. Andy Beshear joined Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House this week to announce the appointment of award-winning poet, ...

The Loveland Poet Laureate Program will bring Colorado poet and photographer Kathryn Winograd to Loveland for a workshop and ...

At just 16 years old, Finn Maxwell already has a major love of the written word. The San Lorenzo Valley High School junior ...

Students are organizing their own events to celebrate diversity after the University of Kentucky confirmed last week it ...