For more than 30 years she was the state’s poet laureate. And on Thursday, Brooks will become the first Chicago-based black poet honored with a statue and memorial in a Chicago public park.

CHICAGO (CBS) --A statue of poet Gwendolyn Brooks will be formally unveiled Thursday at the South Side park named in her honor.Brooks lived in Chicago nearly all her life. In 1950, she became the ...

Pablo Neruda wrote in one of his favorite poetry collections, "Extravagaria," "I have lived so much that some day they will have to forget me forcibly." Maybe he knew that even 100 years after his ...

Host Jacki Lyden marks the 250th birthday of Scottish poet and haggis lover Robert Burns. She hears from Alison Jones, a champion of Burns' poems. Jones is also a champion reciter — she won The ...

The Friends of William Stafford will celebrate the birthday of the Oregon poet and former U.S. poet laureate at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the Albany Public Library, 2450 ...

MILTON HONORED AS PULPIT'S POET; Famous Clergymen and Men of Letters Unite in Birthday Celebration. BEN GREET RECITES POEMS Bishop Greer Presides and the Rev. Percy Grant and the Messrs. Butler ...

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You are known to the unknown hermit — the stone, the mouth of the dumb, the lonely and the cursed. The stone crowned you as the poet laureate. O your truest admirer is the stone, human as the ...