'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 ...
Patti Smith’s Horses at 50: How a reluctant musician made a punk-rock classic
Patti Smith’s groundbreaking debut has influenced generations of musicians. But it took a producer four years to persuade ...
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Felix Dawson crowned 2025 Fenland Poet Laureate with Isla Jackson named Young Fenland Poet Laureate
It was a night of celebration and literary excellence as the 2025 Fenland Poet Laureate Awards honoured the district’s finest ...
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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Tom Sexton, former state poet laureate, is remembered for his ‘unbelievable’ influence teaching Alaska writers
As an English and creative writing professor at UAA for nearly 25 years, Sexton spurred young writers to chase opportunity ...
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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.
These are Scotland's 10 greatest poets - and none of them are dead
It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...