This story has been updated. Another image has been added. For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did not exist.

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will become Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate. I will be passing the laurels onto ...

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has launched a new T-shirt to raise funds for the non-profit that benefits pregnant youth living in L.A.'s foster system. This year's tee, co-designed by her friend and poet and author Cleo Wade ...

It’s that confidence, skill and care for the craft that led him to the title of Lansing Poet Laureate in 2019, a role he recently passed to Ruelaine Stokes in 2024. Lansing’s poet laureate is ...

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The only stipend in his line of work is the antiquated allowance that's given to the poet laureate. "What do you get for that, poet laureate? £70 a year and a barrel of sherry? Not interested." ...

Julie Kane, who was the Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2011-2013 and is professor emerita of English at Northwestern State University was named the 2025 winner of the LWA. LCB said Kane was born in ...

South Dakota’s Poet Laureate Bruce Roseland wants to hear from you. He’s putting together an anthology of poems about South Dakota persons, events, fauna, flora … anything that happened in ...