The South Side native will serve a two-year term as poet laureate and receive $70,000 to commission new works.

The Shreveport Regional Arts Council is hosting a welcome reception and artist talk with Gina Ferrara, Louisiana's newest ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayda Alexandra del Valle was just named Chicago's Poet Laureate. She's a poet and a performer who has ...

Mayda Alexandra del Valle will serve a two-year term and receive $70,000 to commission new works and create public ...

Bennett, the first Black woman to serve as Carrboro's poet laureate, plans to emphasize expanding access to poetry throughout ...

When Arthur Sze translates classical Tang dynasty poetry into English, he writes Chinese characters by hand, slowing himself ...

Rockford has named its new poet and youth poet laureates. Adam al-Sirgany will serve a two-year term as the poet laureate and ...

Patti Smith’s career as a punk rocker blazed in the late 1970s. Her debut album, Horses, just reissued as a 50th-anniversary ...

The search has begun to find the inaugural Isle of Wight Poet Laureate as applications open later this month (January).

Two visionaries in journalism and democracy have accepted appointments as senior fellows, the Charles F. Kettering Foundation announced today. The new fellows are voting rights activist Stacey Abrams ...

For New Year’s, we’re bringing you one of our favorite conversations from our series on resilience.