Massachusetts announces its first state poet laureate position
The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...
Minnesota Daily4d
Minneapolis picks new Poet Laureate
Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet ...
Cape and Islands NPR7d
At long last a poet laureate will bring verse to people of Massachusetts
A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...
The Martha's Vineyard Times2d
Call for nominations for West Tisbury poet laureate
The West Tisbury library is seeking nominations for the new West Tisbury poet laureate for 2025–28. The term of the current ...
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Bucks County High School Scribes Encouraged to Enter 38th Annual Poetry Contest
Bucks County Community College, which has been nurturing writers for more than 50 years, calls on creative young people to ...
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Turning a new leaf: Poet laureate resigns
Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning. Sutphen, 71, is the state’s second poet laureate, beginning in ...
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Gov. Pritzker and First Lady Pritzker Announce Open Applications for Next Illinois Poet Laureate
Governor JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker announced an open call for poets statewide to apply to be considered as the ...
Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of Jamaica
Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.
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KFPL launches poetry mentorship with Sadiqa de Meijer
The Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL), in collaboration with the City of Kingston’s Poet Laureate, Sadiqa de Meijer, ...