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How Boston's Poet Laureate feels the joy of Juneteenth through 'The Electric Slide'
WBUR Boston· 8 hours agoJuneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 that the last known group of slaves, in Galveston, Texas, were finally freed, more than two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was ordered ...
U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón returning to Cape Cod roots to unveil new poetry project
WBUR Boston· 5 days agoRadio Boston chats with poet laureate Ada Limón about her upcoming project, “You Are Here: Poetry in Parks.”
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón wants you to picnic with poetry — at our National Parks - The Boston...
The Boston Globe· 7 days agoOn Friday, Limón returns to the Fine Arts Work Center — which Kunitz helped found in 1968 — to...
Herricks High School teacher Alan Semerdjian will be Nassau County's poet laureate
Newsday· 4 days ago“Little Alan would never have dreamt of this kind of recognition or honor.” Paula Camacho, president...
Why is there a poem on a picnic table in Beech Forest? Cape Cod display first of 7 in U.S.
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoPoet Laureate Ada Limón recalling her first visit. She arrived in Provincetown for the first time on...
Getting to know Charlotte’s first youth poet laureate
WBTV Charlotte· 4 days agoOur friends at Charlotte is Creative introduced us to a special young writer who is breaking new ground in the Queen City. Vanessa Hunter is Charlotte’s first youth poet & ...
Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho becomes OBE in King’s Birthday Honours
Press Association News via AOL· 3 days agoThe Queen with Children’s Laureate and poet Joseph Coelho who has been made an OBE (Justin...
Central City unveils Festival Square
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. via Yahoo News· 2 days agoRepresentatives from the city of Central City, Muhlenberg County, Farmers Bank & Trust and the Everly Brothers Foundation came together with the Muhlenberg County community, along with friends ...
Remembering a poet; paving paradise; keeping Portsmouth special and more: Letters
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 6 days agoRemembering Portsmouth Poet Laureate Elizabeth Knies Elizabeth Knies has passed away. Liz first came...
Biko Eisen-Martin’s New Play Grapples With a 1966 Uprising in Hunters Point
KQED· 5 days agoAdditional research on Eisen-Martin’s part included correspondence with Stanford PhD candidate...