Catherine Pierce, Mississippi Poet Laureate, reads some of her poetry during a Monday [April 11] event at MSU. (Photo by Megan Bean) Pierce is the winner of the 2021 Mississippi Institute of Arts and ...

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California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, who celebrates the state in "My California," joins the L.A. Times Book Club on Dec. 12.

Andrea Gibson, who was named Colorado’s ninth poet laureate, is applauded as they walk to the podium to speak during a small gathering in their honor on the terrace at Chautauqua auditorium in ...

Columnist Rick Magee is searching for his successor as poet laureate of Bethel. 'The small world of poetry is filled with ...

Joy Harjo, who was appointed as U.S. poet laureate in 2019, is the first Native American to take on the role. She was born in Tulsa, Okla., and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Boyd succeeds outgoing poet laureate Nandi Comer, who served from 2023 to the end of 2024. “Melba Joyce Boyd's appointment as the poet laureate of Michigan is a cause for celebration,” Comer said.

Slam Connection, founded by Williamsburg poet laureate LaCroy Nixon, saw success at both the Virginia Team Poetry Slam ...

M.L. Smoker and Melissa Kwasny, Montana’s poets laureate, wrote jointly that “after 125 years, the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians was finally granted federal recognition.” ...

Michigan's first (and so far, only) state poet laureate was Edgar Guest, a former syndicated poet for the Free Press. He held the title starting in 1952. Various attempts to fill the role since ...

Poet laureates were first recognized in Italy during the fourteenth century. Ben Jonson became England’s first poet laureate in 1616, although the first “official” poet laureate, John Dryden ...

Poet, essayist, translator, and educator Manuel Iris served as Poet Laureate from 2018 to 2021, which included an additional year as result of a pandemic hiatus. He calls the opportunity to serve as ...