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

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

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Poets from Wisconsin cities have a free three-hour experience at the Institute of Paleontology at the Kenosha Public Museum.

The Winnipeg Arts Council is accepting nominations of local wordsmiths for the vacant literary ambassadorship.

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Scott Brocato talks with New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who will read from her work Friday night at NMSU.

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"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...