Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from “Proof,” an original poem he has written for Zohran ...

Jason Kuhl, the library system's chief executive director, introduced Waugh to library patrons in the November 2025 issue of ...

The renowned poet Nikki Giovanni has died. Giovanni died on Monday, Dec. 9, following her third cancer diagnosis, according to a statement from friend and author Renée Watson. She was 81. "We will ...

From Hollywood movies to children’s books, there has probably never been more discussion of how people of color are represented in American culture than there is right now. Efforts like #OscarsSoWhite ...

Mikhayla Smith is ending her two-year term as the second-ever Poet Laureate of Athens on Jan. 1, 2026. Her work has been ...

Dream I have a small dream for the new year: to wake at dawn and step into the yard. Where does the wind come from? When do ...

After a viral moment at a bank, Nico Patino’s poems are making him one of Southern California’s buzziest new artists.

Fresno will soon get comfortable – or, maybe not – with its newest poet laureate who unapologetically sprinkles cuss words into his poems as if they were as essential as periods and commas, and whose ...

Nicole “Nic” Jean Turner has been selected as Worcester’s next poet laureate. Samara Tang-Rainwater will serve as the youth ...

The suicide of popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the USSR and beyond.