Michael Doucet is breaking out his fiddle to join former Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith in a first-ever ...

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

Danielle Legros Georges, a writer and teacher who was born in Haiti and served as Boston's Poet Laureate under Mayor Martin J. Walsh, died on Feb. 11 at her home in Dorchester, according to a post ...

Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time.

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

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

Montana's poet laureate doesn't pull punches — on anything. But his unfiltered nature and commitment to appearing in the ...

Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

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

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

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