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Introducing Poetry from Daily Life, a new weekly feature from Missouri's poet laureate
Springfield News-Leader via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAs Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate, I asked News-Leader Editor-in-Chief Amos Bridges what he thought...
Reader disturbed that South Carolina has lingered without a poet laureate since 2020
The State McClatchy via AOL· 1 year agoWhere’s our poet? Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the governor to promote poetry...
New Vermont poet laureate Bianca Stone follows in the footsteps left by her grandmother
Gannett via AOL· 1 month agoThe new poet laureate of Vermont is following in the footsteps left by her grandmother less than 20...
Michigan names first state poet laureate since 1950s
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMichigan joined the long list of states with a poet laureate Wednesday. Nandi Comer will serve as Michigan's first poet laureate since the 1950s,...
Ada Limón is named the 24th poet laureate of the U.S.
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoAward-winning poet Ada Limón is making history: The Library of Congress announced Tuesday that it...
Poet Billy Collins on shedding New York and finding contentment as a Florida Man
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI often write about our state’s inexhaustible tales of “Florida Man” — that guy with a special...
How to nominate the seventh Missouri poet laureate
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPoets help us pause long enough to notice the beauty of our world, to name what hurts and hinders us, and to seek greater understanding of both. Missouri...
Celebrate poetry month with People’s Book and Takoma Park's poet laureate
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoLocal, independent bookstores have never been more important. With fair access to literature under...
House named Kentucky Poet Laureate
The Sentinel Echo, London, Ky. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApr. 26—Governor Andy Beshear appointed local award-winning author Silas House as the 2023-24 Kentucky Poet Laureate in an announcement during the Kentucky Arts Council's Kentucky Writers' Day ...
Thomasville student claims State Poet Laureate Prize
The Albany Herald, Ga. via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoATLANTA – This week, Georgia’s Poet Laureate, Chelsea Rathburn, in partnership with Georgia Council for the Arts, announced the winner and finalists of the 11th annual Poet Laureate’s Prize.
