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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 ...
'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 ...
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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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 ...
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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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Denker: Youth basketball is a way of life in the State of Hockey
"The beauty of sports — even for me to this very day as a very much former basketball player and former sportswriter — is that sports teach all of us the value of now. To live in this very ...
West Valley View14d
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 poets and their contributions to the arts. “This marks our third year ...
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Kentucky poet laureate leads opposition to water pollution bill
FRANKFORT — With the Kentucky River as a backdrop, Kentucky poet laureate Silas House and other environmental advocates spoke out last Tuesday against a bill that would limit state regulation of ...
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Higher interest in youth level leading to rapid increase of Division III women's hockey programs
That isn’t as much of a problem in hockey hotbeds such as Wisconsin anymore with a steady increase in the number of girls playing the sport. That trend helped launch the coaching career of Marabella, ...
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State leaders spearhead new youth mental health initiative: 'We know the problem'
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- On Monday, ABC11 went one-on-one with mental health professionals -- and the state's top health official -- about the rise in mental health issues in children. According to ...
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Statewide padyatra of Youth Cong, NSUI from March 16
He, however, did not specify its time period. Allavaru, who is also the national in charge of Youth Congress, said the state govt did not work for "dawai, padhai, kamai and mehngai (health ...