Governor JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker announced an open call for poets statewide to apply to be considered as the ...
Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...
When Amanda Gorman read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at former President Joe Biden’s inauguration, she became the youngest ...
Nellie Bridge of Sequim will serve as Clallam County’s next poet laureate, stepping into the two-year position this April.
The 20th-century poet William Carlos Willams wrote in his poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower:" “It is difficult/to get the ...
Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning. Sutphen, 71, is the state’s second poet laureate, ...
The city of San Diego Thursday named its newest poet laureate, Paola Capó-García, a North Park resident originally from ...