Jewel Rodgers appointed as first African American Nebraska poet laureate
Gov. Jim Pillen appointed Omaha author and performer Jewel Rodgers as Nebraska's new state poet. Rodgers, 27, is the youngest ...
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Recipient of many of the nation’s highest cultural honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the NAACP Great American Artist Award, a Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, the Duke Ellington Lifetime ...
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'Push the boundaries': Literacy advocate Zell Miller III is Austin's first poet laureate
This story has been updated. Another image has been added. For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did not exist.