Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is known for her vulnerable storytelling, particularly in her poem "Papa'z ...

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

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

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

Billy Corgan is teaming up with Lyric Opera of Chicago to celebrate the album's 30th anniversary. It's a prospect Corgan didn ...

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes began his three-year term as the fourth poet laureate of Jamaica in January, taking on ...