Black History Month: Acclaimed poet seeks to leave legacy
News Center 7 is highlighting Black History Month and today we feature Poet david Matthews. “I just fell in love, because ...
Poetry can be a ‘powerful and magical’ tool, says San Diego’s new Poet Laureate, Paola Capó-García
The North Park resident says she hopes to work with local schools to incorporate more poetry into their curriculums and host ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
When This Brilliant Author Died, She Left Behind a Legacy of Grief, Haunting Poetry and Surprising Resilience
Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...
NBC News4d
'Changing the world': Poet Amanda Gorman on new children's book
Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Four years later, she’s helping children find their voice with her new picture ...
The Daily Tar Heel9d
From a national championship to poetry program, Bob Young inspires students
Still, Young’s Carolina impact does not end there. Young has also bequeathed a professorship to the Department of English and ...
WBUR10d
Massachusetts begins searching for its first poet laureate
Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time. "Poets and poetry have had a profound role in our state's history ...
The Boston Globe10d
Governor Healey creates Massachusetts poet laureate role
Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish a poet laureate of Massachusetts. Applications for the position are not yet open, but the eventual appointee will be responsible ...
The Boston Globe7d
Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of Jamaica
PROVIDENCE — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University literary arts professor, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As part of his role, Dawes will be charged with “stimulating a greater ...
The Hollywood Reporter28d
David Lynch Was L.A.’s Dark Poet Laureate (Guest Column)
He was the poet laureate this city never knew it had. We just never realized it because his iconic drawl so seamlessly blended into the background here: whether it was hearing him give the weather ...
The New York Times29d
Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference
Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal ...