The legendary folk singer is among 250 being considered for President Donald Trump's proposed "Garden of American Heroes." ...

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Angelou was an American poet ... inspired by Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai to become a youth delegate for the UN in 2013. In 2014, she was chosen youth poet laureate of Los Angeles ...

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The American Composers Orchestra and American Composers Forum revealed new joint initiative: The Sorel Award. One award will ...

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Nancy Miller Gomez is the county’s new poet laureate for 2025-26, having officially been announced to the position at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 28 meeting.

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The position comes with a stipend and the ability to apply for the prestigious Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellowship program, a $50,000 award given to honor poets of literary merit. Petrus said ...