poet laureate

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Recent Examples on the Web 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 In July 2022, she was named the 24th poet laureate of the United States—the first Latina to be awarded the seat—by the Library of Congress. Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 30 July 2024 The book was a sensation: The poet laureate, Alfred Tennyson, loved it, and Prince Albert read it aloud to Queen Victoria. Brenda Wineapple, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2024 Becoming Little Shell: Returning Home to the Landless Indians of Montana, by Chris La Tray $26 at Amazon Montana poet laureate Chris La Tray’s father wanted no part of his Chippewa heritage. Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 24 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for poet laureate 

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