LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The city of Little Rock designated its first poet laureate through a proclamation at the board of directors meeting Tuesday. Leron McAdoo, who has had a long-time passion for ...

The North Dakota Council on the Arts has announced the extension of Denise Lajimodiere's term as North Dakota Poet Laureate through June 2028. Lajimodiere, an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain ...

Aris Kian Brown has only been active in Houston's spoken word poetry circuit since 2018, but those five years were enough to become the city's poet laureate. The 25-year-old Houston native is ...

Some years ago there was a man saying that Mexico doesn’t send their best when it comes to immigrants. I believe this statement to be true. As the son of a man born and raised en el otro lado del ...

As Wisconsin's poet laureate, Nicholas Gulig has an unsettling way of revealing the connections between the muddied landscape of our backyard and the rest of the globe. To read his work is to hold ...

Andrea Gibson, the award-winning poet laureate of Colorado, died Monday morning at 49, according to a Facebook post by their family. Gibson was a poet, author and ambassador of the arts. Gibson became ...

The UChicago Women’s Board invited Nobel laureate and economics professor Michael Kremer to speak at their annual dinner at the Rubenstein Forum on November 16. The Women’s Board, a social and ...

Choosing the right words was a gift that Everett Hoagland, the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, had and used to create a lasting legacy. Hoagland was noted as one of the most significant African ...

Patrick Conley, Rhode Island's first and only historian laureate, did not ask to be reappointed. Eight people have applied to be the historian laureate. The state will not share the names of who ...