'Push the boundaries': Literacy advocate Zell Miller III is Austin's first poet laureate
For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...
Barbara Lee has avid fans in Oakland mayor’s race. But Loren Taylor is making it a contest
Oakland voters have a provocative choice in next month's special election for mayor, as longtime former Rep. Barbara Lee ...
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Poetry Connection | Get to know Santa Barbara’s Next Poet Laureate
There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...
S.F.’s Poet Laureate awarded $175,000 as part of prestigious literary prize
San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin has been awarded Yale University’s prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. The $175,000 literary award aims to provide writers the financial means to focus ...
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Best things to do this week in Los Angeles and Southern California: March 24 - 27
Writers events galore — from Sloane Crosley to WeHo’s poet laureate, a Tina Turner jazz tribute night, a Monday afternoon ...
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BYU professor and former Utah Poet Laureate recognizes the sacred in everyday life
BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...
John Cooper Clarke: 'A national treasure? I hate that'
He is about to become the first poet to headline a UK arena, but says he isn't ready for national treasure status.
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SBCC Tribute to Poetry Features First Latino U.S. Poet Laureate
Juan Felipe Herrera In celebration of National Poetry Month and the Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home initiative, Santa ...
Clark County poet laureate sees magic in her art form, Las Vegas
Aside from being Clark County’s current poet laureate, Ashley “Ms. AyeVee” Vargas has represented Las Vegas in the ...
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This date in history: 1929, A Sutter County duck hunter is state’s poet laureate
On March 22, 1929, the California legislature in a joint resolution names a man who spent his boyhood hunting ducks and geese in Sutter County as California’s second poet laureate.
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Ada Limón: ‘Humanity is at its worst. It’s hard to celebrate’
The 24th Poet Laureate of the United States – and the first of Hispanic origin – shares her experience as an ambassador of ...
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Santa Barbara City College Hosts Acclaimed Poet Juan Felipe Herrera for National Poetry Month Event
Juan Casillas Núñez, SBCC Spanish Professor and event organizer added, “Juan Felipe Herrera’s words remind us that poetry is not just an art form but a movement — one that invites us to reflect, dream ...