Masaki Takahashi is the founder of The Poetry Room Open Mic at The Robin Theatre in Lansing. He’s also been the city’s poet laureate since 2022. As poet laureate, his goals have been to promote the ...

Michael Laskey says he is "still finding it hard to believe" after receiving the recognition.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan joined the long list of states with a poet laureate Wednesday. Nandi Comer will serve as Michigan's first poet laureate ...

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 ...

Award-winning poet Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, will be the Academy of American Poets' first Latino executive director and president. The organization, founded in ...

When I lived and worked in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I always loved spending time at Midtown Scholar. It is one of my favorite bookstores in the world. It's a converted old theater with cozy wooden ...