Indianapolis native Alyssa Gaines selected as 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAlyssa Gaines, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, was named the 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate May...
Rockford Youth Poet Laureate was listening to Shakespeare before she was even born
Rockford Register Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Auburn High School junior also is the 2022 City of Rockford Youth Poet Laureate. The high honor...
Meet Amanda Gorman's California successor as youth poet laureate: Alexandra Huynh
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEarly this year, when Amanda Gorman read "The Hill We Climb" at President Biden's inauguration, it...
Amanda Gorman talks poetry, the pandemic and 405 traffic on first day of L.A. Times Festival of...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAmanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, speaks during the The Los Angeles Times...
Worcester's new youth poet laureate: 'I’m going to continue to lead the artistic revolution.'
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAdael Mejia began writing at a young age while living in Ecuador with his father, a teacher. On...
Weeks after father's death, Brockton's youth poet laureate inducted at emotional ceremony
The Enterprise via Yahoo News· 8 months agoBROCKTON — Two weeks before her induction ceremony as Brockton's first-ever youth poet laureate,...
Meet the city's first-ever youth poet laureate. Here's what Brockton means to her.
The Enterprise via Yahoo News· 10 months agoBROCKTON — Ayanna Blake stood at a wooden lectern facing the small crowd in the Driscoll Art...
Holy Cross professor Oliver de la Paz is Worcester's next Poet Laureate
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 3 months agoWORCESTER — Award-winning poet and College of the Holy Cross associate professor Oliver de la Paz...
Knoxville is looking for its first youth poet laureate
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApplications are open in the search for Knoxville’s first youth poet laureate, who will lead the charge in taking poetry to the city’s under-19 residents. Knoxville students ages 13-19 are invited ...
First poet laureate of Oak Ridge named
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOak Ridge Mayor Warren Gooch appointed Erin Elizabeth Smith as Oak Ridge’s first poet laureate at Monday night's City Council meeting. In addition to...