Massachusetts announces its first state poet laureate position
The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...
Minnesota Daily4d
Minneapolis picks new Poet Laureate
Minneapolis’ Arts and Cultural Affairs department and The Loft Literary Center selected Junauda Petrus as the new poet ...
Cape and Islands NPR7d
At long last a poet laureate will bring verse to people of Massachusetts
A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...
Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of Jamaica
Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.
Dayton Daily News10d
Dayton will announce its first poet laureate this week
In partnership with Culture Works, the City of Dayton will soon announce its first poet laureate. A media event is planned for 10 a.m. Friday at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, where the ...
Brown University8d
Brown University Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes named poet laureate of Jamaica
Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...
New Hampshire Public Radio7d
At long last a poet laureate will bring verse to people of Massachusetts
the Northampton poet laureate from 2017 to 2019. "Whenever folks are in an extreme situation, even people who don't ordinarily read poetry, go to poetry — for solace or celebration or protest ...
WWLP-22News11d
Massachusetts to have first-ever poet laureate
BOSTON (WWLP) – Governor Healey signed an executive order on Monday creating Massachusett’s first poet laureate role in history. Poet laureate is an honorary position, typically given to the ...
WBUR11d
Massachusetts begins searching for its first poet laureate
Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time. "Poets and poetry have had a profound role in our state's history ...
The Boston Globe11d
Governor Healey creates Massachusetts poet laureate role
Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish a poet laureate of Massachusetts. Applications for the position are not yet open, but the eventual appointee will be responsible ...
Gloucester Daily Times5d
Seaport seeks poet laureate
The 20th-century poet William Carlos Willams wrote in his poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower:" “It is difficult/to get the ...