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Rockford names 2025 Poet Laureate, Youth Poet
Autumn Rose Smith was named as the 2025 Youth Poet. Smith is currently a junior at Boylan, and had her first poem published in Futures, a book by Appelley Publishing, while she was in the 4th Grade.
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WHAM hosts youth poet laureate competition
Applications are open for the WHAM Art Center’s 2025-2026 West Valley Youth Poet Laureate competition, which celebrates young ...
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Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman Promotes Unity: ‘We Are One Family’
Amanda Gorman, the former National Youth Poet Laureate who gained attention when she read at President Biden’s 2021 inauguration, offered a new poem Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention.
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Watch the first-ever U.S. youth poet laureate perform a stunning poem about social change
As the very first U.S. youth poet laureate, a position she earned for ... the U.S. She hopes to make poetry accessible to America's young people, and has sought them out when she speaks and ...
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Long Beach is on the hunt for its inaugural youth poet laureate
Long Beach will soon get its first youth poet laureate, with the inaugural program offering one teen a scholarship to spend a year engaging young people in the literary arts, the city announced on ...