The Greeks had Homer, the Romans had Virgil, and Knoxville has its Poets Laureate. The Arts & Culture Alliance is accepting ...
The Winnipeg Arts Council is accepting nominations of local wordsmiths for the vacant literary ambassadorship, a role ...
Gov. Maura T. Healey signed an executive order creating the first-ever poet laureate of Massachusetts earlier this month.
Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Rossetti and Zephaniah have all followed. Now, poet laureate and Yorkshireman Simon Armitage – has ...
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Is poetry useless?
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...
Coming up at 9 a.m. on Thursday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with the newly appointed Poet Laureate for the city of ...
"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...
Poet, author, and curator, Poetic X is a Shreveport native with a sincere passion and appreciation for poetry, arts and ...
Poet laureate Simon Armitage has welcomed the news that the government is investing £5m into the development of the National ...
A native of the Scarboro community, Rose Weaver has dedicated her life to education, advocacy and preserving Black history in ...
In addition to its inductees, the Greater Cleveland Association of Black Journalists said it would also honor current media ...
She connects the victims of atrocities with those who remember. Her novel “We Do Not Part” is now out in an English language ...