Angela Bauer has been a copy editor and lifestyles editor for the Journal-Courier since July 2012. The Evansville, Indiana, ...

Come See Me in the Good Light,” a documentary about Boulder County poet Andrea Gibson grappling with an incurable cancer diagnosis, wins over Sundance audiences’ hearts.

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...

The City of Dayton has selected its first-ever poet laureate. Sierra Leona will serve as Dayton’s first poet laureate. Leone is an educator, award-winning ...

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in ...

Sierra Leone will serve as the first poet laureate for the City of Dayton, officials announced Friday in a media event at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Visitor Center.

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

Picture book author Mac Barnett has been named the Library of Congress' new ambassador for young people's literature. He discusses what the role means when engaging kids in reading can be a struggle.

If Telluride can be said to have a ‘hot’ literary instructor, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is likely it. The Western Slope ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, we shine a light on individuals like Shelly Conley—a poet, performer, author, and youth ...

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey recently signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in ...