Boyd is retired professor at Wayne State University and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum for ...

Tompkins County appointed its 12th Poet Laureate on Tuesday. Find out who he is and what the position entails.

The Race Unity Circle of Olean will present a Black History Month Celebration of the life of Dr. Maya Angelou at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Olean Public ...

After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta abruptly canceled several events.

Using its I Love Libraries website as a platform, the ALA has launched a public supporter program intended to generate ...

The Library of Congress now separates books into 21 categories, using the alphabet to distinguish each category.

I Am Here!” exhibition at the Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library honors Harlem Renaissance poet and ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Rossetti and Zephaniah have all followed. Now, poet laureate and Yorkshireman Simon Armitage – has ...

In 1848, the Boston Athenaeum acquired more than 300 volumes from the famed Virginian's collection of books. They nearly ...

The American Library Association (ALA) is set to confer an honorary lifetime membership upon publishing executive and library ...