Nebraska’s next state poet is a fixture around poetry slams and political events in the state’s largest city, having spoken ...

Gov. Jim Pillen appointed Omaha author and performer Jewel Rodgers as Nebraska's new state poet. Rodgers, 27, is the youngest and first African American person to hold that position. And no one could ...

The crime drama followed mob boss Tony Soprano ( James Gandolfini) as he attempted to be a family man and keep his criminal ...

Jewel Rodgers, the daughter of 1972 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers, was named this week by Gov. Jim Pillen to be the next Nebraska State Poet. She was sel ...

The City of Newark has just announced that it is accepting applications for its inaugural Poet Laureate for a 2-year term ...

Before the winner of the £25,000 TS Eliot Prize is announced on Monday, our critic rounds up the runners and riders. Read on ...

Rich in lyricism, the US imagemaker’s new photo book shares intimate stories from her childhood through to the present day ...

Whoopi Goldberg, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, and others will compete in literary categories at the 56th NAACP Image Awards.

From early critiques at Wesleyan to her upcoming Dia Beacon show, Green’s work explores the complex intersections of race, ...

Longtime journalist Fuzz Hogan was the first CNN staffer to take the stand in the high-stakes defamation case against the ...

Perhaps Carter’s most revealing poem, “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World,” concerns the man who never got to see his ...