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Ada Limón (born 1976), 24th United States Poet Laureate; Lebogang Mashile (born 1979), South African actress, writer and performance poet; Lili Mendoza (born 1974), Panamanian poet and writer; Touhfat Mouhtare (living), Comoros poet and writer; Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974), American poet; Neelam Karki Niharika (born 1975), Nepalese poet ...
The position was modeled on the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Begun in 1937, and formerly known as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the present title was devised and authorized by an Act of Congress in 1985. Appointed by the Librarian of Congress, the poet laureate's office is administered by the Center for the Book ...
Pages in category "American women singer-songwriters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,822 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Kara Jackson is from Oak Park, Illinois and attended Oak Park River Forest High School, where she participated in spoken word. [1] [2] [3] Jackson also participated in a jazz ensemble at Merit School of Music, and was the Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago in 2018.
Also: United States: People: By occupation: Women musicians / Singers: Women singers. Subcategories. This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total
Municipal Poets Laureate in the United States (6 C, 50 P) A. Poets Laureate of Alabama (7 P) Poets Laureate of Alaska (8 P) Poets Laureate of Arizona (1 P)
In 2017, Gorman became the first youth poet to open the literary season for the Library of Congress, and she has read her poetry on MTV. [11] [36] She wrote "In This Place: An American Lyric" for her September 2017 performance at the Library of Congress, which commemorated the inauguration of Tracy K. Smith as Poet Laureate of the United States ...
Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) [1] is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. [2] In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow [3] and she won the Pulitzer Prize. [4]