Brenda Cárdenas is Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate. As the state’s ambassador for poetry, the Milwaukee native hopes to inspire creativity through workshops, projects and meeting with young people.

As Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate, Brenda Cárdenas is traveling around the state with a mission: inspiring creativity ...

After the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission selected Gulig for state poet laureate on Jan. 9, no uncertainty remained: At 43, Gulig had reached a level of influence with his work that only a ...

Newly appointed Wisconsin poet laureate, Nicholas Gulig, has authored three poetry books and is currently an associate professor at UW-Whitewater. He shares his passion and inspiration for poetry ...

Wisconsin Poet Laureate: Amanda Gorman inspires culture, country with inauguration poem 'This was for the world,' Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Hamilton said of Gorman's powerful poem.

For the time being, Kelly Hamilton will be poet laureate of both Wisconsin and Milwaukee; she was selected for the latter post in 2019. She joins Marilyn L. Taylor as the only poets to have held ...

SHEBOYGAN - Lisa Vihos didn't always think of herself as a poet. In fact, it took most of her life before she started thinking of herself that way. Vihos has written poetry since she was a kid.

In Wisconsin is joined by Poet Laureate, Bruce Dethlefsen. April is National Poetry Month and it seemed like a good enough reason to meet Wisconsin's newest Poet Laureate. Bruce Dethlefsen, of ...

Kimberly Blaeser’s first official event as the 2015/16 Wisconsin Poet Laureate will be at the Burlington Poetry Out Loud competition on Monday, Jan. 19, at the Coffee House at Chestnut & Pine ...

"Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems," a new anthology edited by Margaret Rozga and Angela C. Trudell Vasquez, includes work by the eight people who have been Wisconsin poet laureate: the ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The art that is poetry for Dasha Kelly Hamilton has been challenged over the past four years by rhetoric, lies, racism, cruelty and violence. She has found it difficult to ...

The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Winter Poetry Festival is a gathering for local artists to share their best, most personal and wackiest poems with the Madison community. This eight-week festival ...