The official post of ‘Poet Laureate’ (laureate meaning crowned with laurels) in the United Kingdom, is held by a distinguished poet chosen by the monarch who is attached to the royal household. In ...
The Georgia Council for the Arts named a Thomas County high school senior as the state’s student Poet Laureate’s Prize winner. Grayson Jones, a senior at Thomas County Central High School ...
The first to fill that position, administered by the Austin Public Library for a two-year term, is veteran theater artist and spoken-word poet Zell Miller III. "My responsibilitie ...
She was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate in 2019. She is also the winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Creative Nonfiction and the American Book Award. In addition to Crazy Brave, she ...
"I believe poetry offers us valuable opportunities ... Press in 2006 and honored as the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by former U.S Laureate Jean Valentine.
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.
Shelly Conley, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's poetry slam scene, has been named the city's new Poet Laureate. Conley is ...