Dallas’ poet laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) This year, Dallas named Mag Gabbert ...

In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

The object of the common school system in Massachusetts was to give to every child in the Commonwealth a free, straight solid path-way by which he could walk directly up from the ignorance of an ...

Gary Snyder was born on May 8, 1930, in San Francisco. He was the recipient of the 2012 Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement by the Academy of American Poets. He is a professor of English at ...