Poet and author Joy Harjo has been named as the United States' 23rd poet laureate. Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, will be the first Native American poet to hold the honor. "Joy Harjo ...

Mayda Alexandra del Valle will serve a two-year term and receive $70,000 to commission new works and create public ...

How do we center, in this postcolonial experience, not the perspective of the western European colonizer but the perspective of the indigenous, black, and people of color who were colonized? Even the ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with author and poet Natalie Diaz about her new book, Postcolonial Love Poems. 'Manhattan Is A Lenape Word,' And Other Poems Looking At Native Americans' Struggles LEILA FADEL, ...

Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate best known for her poem "The ...

A poet from Dunmore uses his imagination and love of prose to paint a picture of the town he grew up in. JC Roberts recently published his first book of poetry, “The Cobblestones I Know.” The book is ...

It's North Dakota poetry time. This poem was composed by Lawrence "Larry" Aasen, formerly of Hillsboro, N.D., and now of Westport, Conn. Larry titles his poem "North Dakota Remembered." And he has a ...

Rochester native Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s first full€length collection of poems, "Kicking Gravity," has been accepted for publication by Salmon Poetry. The book will appear in early 2013, and will be ...

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Writer N. Scott Momaday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2019 AP Photo / Russell Contreras N. Scott Momaday became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize after publishing his first ...