Poet Yusef Komunyakaa is to receive an Anisfeld-Wolf Award for lifetime achievement. The 77-year-old poet is known for such collections as “Neon Vernacular” and for exploring race, music and his ...

For National Poetry Month, city of Charleston poet laureate AsiahMae is reading a poem every day via a video on Instagram.

For National Poetry Month, we talk with Richard Blanco, whose “One Today” poem was read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration ...

Michael Ondaatje is among the five shortlisted authors for the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The $10,000 prize, now in its second year, recognizes the best new book from a Canadian poet ...

But perhaps his least-known endeavor was as a poet. Kilmer was a writer of poetry for much of his adult life, having begun dabbling in the form in his twenties as he studied at The Juilliard ...

The Santa Barbara City Council is getting ready to appoint a new Poet Laureate. George Yatchisin is slated to be appointed by ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life ...

Mentor Public Library is hosting a contest for poets of all ages to celebrate National Poetry Month in April. The library will name a winner in three age categories: Children ages 11 and younger ...

Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

The works of poets from the greater Seacoast area will be displayed in town during April, National Poetry Month. More than 30 merchants and poets signed on for the second annual “Storefront ...

On April 10, award-winning poet Dante Micheaux visited the Illini Union Bookstore and read a selection of his poems to an audience.

Ten emerging writers, from an author of speculative fiction to a poet rooted in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, have ...