EASTHAMPTON — The city will bid farewell to its outgoing poet laureate, Carolyn Cushing, and welcome its new poet laureate, Carolyn Zaikowski, this weekend. Zaikowski will be inaugurated ...

He died in July, and she applied to be poet laureate in August. “Poetry does save lives,” she said. “It did not save his, but it has saved mine, and I believe it saved others, and it has the ...

A former Texas poet laureate, Cassells has published 11 books, including “More Than Peace and Cypresses,” “Soul Make a Path Through Shouting” and the compilation “Everything in Life is ...