Following an acclaimed career, Genny Lim, 77, will become San Francisco’s first Chinese American poet laureate during a ceremony Friday at the Asian Art Museum. Lim is the author of five poetry ...

Alice Notley, a much-laureled American poet who found inspiration for her challenging, probing works in sources as disparate ...

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry ...

Finally, we limited the list to Americans: Asking 25 books to represent 25 years of artistic progress within the many traditions that feed into American poetry was difficult enough. For all the ...

At her inauguration as the city's poet laureate, Genny Lim recites from her poem, "I am American." "I am American. We live, love, work, sleep and breathe In this Babylon of 48 hills..." she begins.

“As a child, I was just fascinated by the world around me, and I always felt weird,” said Jaki Shelton Green, now 71 and North Carolina’s first African American poet laureate. “I would sit ...

Robinson picked up quite a few wrong blocks himself, but also enough right ones to spell American poet.

James Lloydovich Patterson, who has died aged 91, was a child film star in the USSR who became a Soviet naval officer before ...

Almost 10 years ago, the poem “An Essay on Slavery,” by the first published African American poet ,Jupiter Hammon, was discovered at an archive at Yale University. Written in 1786 ...