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March 1, 2024 at 3:21 PM. Colin Channer, a Jamaican-born writer who now calls Providence home, is Rhode Island's new poet laureate.
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate, serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry.
Smith's term as poet laureate will be from 2024-2026, and her first performance is scheduled to take place at the Flight of the Fireflies Lantern Parade at 7:30 p.m. at Dudley Park on Mar. 16.
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) [1] [2] [3] is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age ...
The current poet laureate of Alabama is Ashley M. Jones. Alabama has had an official poet laureate since 1930. The Alabama Writer's Cooperative (formerly the Alabama Writers' Conclave), described as "a voluntary organization of Alabama historians, playwrights, fiction writers, poets, and newspaper writers" first recommended in 1930 Samuel Minturn Peck to Governor Bibb Graves.
She is just the second Poet Laureate, after Robert Pinsky, to receive such an extension since the position's duties were established in 1943. ... received the 2024 Frost Medal from the Poetry ...
Joseph Aaron Coelho OBE FRSL is a British poet and children's book author who was Children's Laureate from 2022 to 2024. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [1] In 2024, he was announced the winner of the Carnegie Medal for his YA novel The Boy Lost in the Maze.
Oct. 21—Riverland Community College is proud to announce that student Katherine Eliason has been named the 2024 Phi Theta Kappa International Poet Laureate for her poem, "A Chance to Breathe."