The Virginia Festival of the Book will pay tribute to poet Nikki Giovanni with readings, live music and tributes from ...

Maw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet who lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. She served as the inaugural ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago just announced its 2025-26 season, including two new shows by Chicago pioneers: Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025-26 season will include five productions that first appeared elsewhere and one revival, all ...

Laura Tohe, poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, has published books of poetry, oral histories and even librettos for decades, ...

The award-winning poet died on Feb. 11 in Dorchester at the age of 60. Her friends, students and colleagues share memories ...

St. Louis is looking for its next bard. The city offers established poets the chance to be St. Louis' poet laureate. The ...

At the age of 7, Ashley Jones dressed as Harriet Tubman and recited lines of Eloise Greenfield's poem about the abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad to her second grade class in ...

Haines lived in extreme winters in that land of cold rivers, salmon, volcanoes, and glaciers. He tracked animals for food with frostbite always a subtle threat. One night a man knocked on his door.

Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going” will be hosted at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 20, at Buttonwoods Museum, 240 Water St., bringing together a diverse panel ...

Bruce Roseland, South Dakota’s Poet Laureate, has won the 2025 Wrangler Award in Poetry for his epic poem novella, “Earl’s ...

As Lauren Camp's tenure as New Mexico's Poet Laureate draws to a close, she reflects on the cultural influences that have ...