Michael Allyn Wells

Governor Jay Nixon has signed an executive order establishing the procedure for selecting  Missouri’s second poet laureate. The new laureate...

Missouri Republicans must be seeing blue tonight.... Over 100,000 turned out in St. Louis earlier today for an Obama rally. This surpassing ...

Missouri's poet laureate highlights area writers By Walter Bargen SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH 08/31/2008 Missouri's first poet laur...

Tuesday night I attended a reading locally by Walter Bargen, the new, and I might add first Missouri poet laureate, as well as Kevin Rabas ...

Mood: complicated Listening to: nothing So begins the day of the last State of the Union Address by George Herbert Walker Bush. A minor mil...

Mood: tired Listening to: nothing Walter Bargen, 59, of Ashland, Missouri - a central Missouri community of about 3,000 residents, has been ...

KCUR News Search for First Missouri Poet Laureate Continues- Laura Spencer [ click here ]

Last night, our local poetry society chapter celebrated Missouri's rich poetic heritage by reading from poets with Missouri connections...

Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt has announced that he will name an official Missouri Poet Laureate. Blunt said, "Missouri has a rich cultural ...