Boston.com7d
Massachusetts announces its first state poet laureate position
Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish the first-ever Massachusetts poet laureate, according to a statement from the office. Applications have not yet opened for the ...
Minnesota Daily5d
Minneapolis picks new Poet Laureate
Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet laureate on Jan. 30. While the city’s first poet, Heid Erdrich, served for one ...
New Hampshire Public Radio7d
At long last a poet laureate will bring verse to people of Massachusetts
the Northampton poet laureate from 2017 to 2019. "Whenever folks are in an extreme situation, even people who don't ordinarily read poetry, go to poetry — for solace or celebration or protest ...
Dayton Daily News10d
Dayton will announce its first poet laureate this week
In partnership with Culture Works, the City of Dayton will soon announce its first poet laureate. A media event is planned for 10 a.m. Friday at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, where the ...
WBUR11d
Massachusetts begins searching for its first poet laureate
Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time. "Poets and poetry have had a profound role in our state's history ...
The Boston Globe10d
Governor Healey creates Massachusetts poet laureate role
Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish a poet laureate of Massachusetts. Applications for the position are not yet open, but the eventual appointee will be responsible ...
WDTN7d
Dayton’s first-ever poet laureate is Sierra Leone
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The City of Dayton has selected its first-ever poet laureate. Sierra Leona will serve as Dayton’s first poet laureate. Leone is an educator, award-winning producer and ...
Peterborough Evening Telegraph4d
Meet Peterborough's new Poet Laureate - Alex Tyler
The role is unlike any other, it is considered a Civic role, and the laureate acts as an ambassador for the city’s poetry community and the work created in their year can document various events ...
The Sun Chronicle9d
Along the Way: Coming soon -- a state poet laureate
Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the honorary position, which is intended to promote poetry and creative ...
The Boston Globe7d
Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of Jamaica
PROVIDENCE — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University literary arts professor, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As part of his role, Dawes will be charged with “stimulating a greater ...
Winnipeg Free Press14d
Undi lands parliamentary poet laureate gig
Winnipeg poet Chimwemwe Undi has been named Canada’s 11th parliamentary poet laureate. Winnipeg poet Chimwemwe Undi has been named Canada’s 11th parliamentary poet laureate. Undi, who is also ...
The Jamaica Observer11d
Professor Kwame Dawes is Jamaica’s fourth poet laureate
Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of investiture, held at King’s House on Wednesday, January 22 ...