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Engaging people with poetry
The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...
Why I’m Replacing Doomscrolling With Poetry
These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.
Meet Newark’s First ‘Poet Laureate’; City Launches New Program
Earlier this year, city officials announced that Newark was launching a search for a new poet laureate. The position is ...
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Pinky The Poet on her spirituality and why she makes poetry
Pinky The Poet pulled up to Fresh Friday to perform "Societal Mechanisms" and to talk about what brought her there from ...
I researched poetry written during COVID. Five years on, here's how people say it helped them
Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...
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Norwalk Names Katherine E. Schneider as New Poet Laureate
The Norwalk Public Library, in partnership with the Norwalk Arts and Cultural Commission and Norwalk Business Development and ...
Glacier Park's poet passes away
He was a poet, a storyteller and an educator, entertaining every one from young tourists to the future president of the United States. He was the welcoming, smiling face of Glacier National Park for ...
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32 years on: Remembering the people's poet, Habib Jalib
LAHORE (Web Desk) – Today (Tuesday) marks the 32nd death anniversary of the legendary revolutionary poet, Habib Jalib, whose words continue to resonate with the masses. Born on March 24, 1928, in ...
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Navajo Nation poet laureate on forging a path for young Indigenous women in writing
Laura Tohe, poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, has published books of poetry, oral histories and even librettos for decades, ...