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Recent Examples of poet laureate
Sharpen your pencils and whip out those rhymes — Austin is seeking a poet laureate.
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Asher Price, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
Previous winners of the Cave Canem Prize include Natasha Trethewey and Tracy K. Smith, who served as poet laureates of the United States in 2012-2014 and 2017-2019, respectively.
—Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
The Ford Foundation is funding the position, along with that of poet laureate Jessica Care Moore and the city's first official historian, Jamon Jordan.
—Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2024
Nandi Comer, a poet laureate whose billboard project includes excerpts from Michigan poets and a QR code directing readers to the state library's website, is among 22 poets who will receive a $50,000 grant through the Poet Laureate Fellowship Program, the Academy of American Poets announced.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Aug. 2024
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Asher Price, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
Previous winners of the Cave Canem Prize include Natasha Trethewey and Tracy K. Smith, who served as poet laureates of the United States in 2012-2014 and 2017-2019, respectively.
—Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
The Ford Foundation is funding the position, along with that of poet laureate Jessica Care Moore and the city's first official historian, Jamon Jordan.
—Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2024
Nandi Comer, a poet laureate whose billboard project includes excerpts from Michigan poets and a QR code directing readers to the state library's website, is among 22 poets who will receive a $50,000 grant through the Poet Laureate Fellowship Program, the Academy of American Poets announced.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Aug. 2024
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