WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.

WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- A lecture on poetry translation will be the final time Charles Simic speaks as U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress said.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Poet Charles Simic was named the U.S. Library of Congress' 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Librarian of Congress James Billington announced Thursday.