For many people, the term Poet Laureate may draw some blank faces, and understandably so, since poetry isn’t something many people are interested in, at least not actively. But there is a deep value ...

Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most ...

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya ...

This year, Dallas named Mag Gabbert as the city’s second poet laureate. Gabbert will serve two years in the position and follows Dallas’ inaugural poet laureate, Joaquín Zihuatanejo. While the Dallas ...

She wanted, she said, “to make a case for poetry,” but to me the present doesn’t necessarily feel like a time for poetry. The ...

Dallas has named its next poetic ambassadors. Kristoddie Woods, who goes by Black Ceasar, is Dallas' new poet laureate, and ...

The life of poet Maurice Rutherford is to be celebrated at an event in his home city of Hull. The poet, who died last October ...

Eighty years ago, an exciting new poet was published in the modernist literary journal Angry Penguins. Of course, we all know now that Ern Malley was a hoax, so it can be easy to overlook just how ...

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The late American poet and activist Nikki Giovanni discovered Dayton poet david matthews’ talent in 1972. The two kept a quasi-mentor-mentee relationship, and a five decades-long friendship, until ...