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1. Kathryn Stripling Byer (November 25, 1944 – June 5, 2017), also called Kay Byer, was an American poet and teacher. She was named by Governor Mike Easley as the fifth North Carolina Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2009. She was the first woman to hold the position.
Jaki Shelton Green is an American poet and was appointed North Carolina Poet Laureate in 2018. [ 1 ] In November 2009, she was named the first Piedmont Laureate by a collection of Triangle -area arts councils. [ 2 ][ 3 ] She currently resides in Mebane, North Carolina. [ 4 ] Green teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University within the Center ...
The poet laureate presents an annual lecture and reading of their poetry and usually introduces poets at the Library's poetry series, the oldest in the Washington area and among the oldest in the United States. This annual series of public poetry and fiction readings, lectures, symposia, and occasional dramatic performances began in the 1940s.
B. John Balaban (poet) Joseph Bathanti. John Henry Boner. Cathy Smith Bowers.
Pages in category "Poets Laureate of North Carolina". The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
National Book Award for Poetry. Spouse. Holly McIntire. Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems[1] and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac. [2] From 2014 to 2015, he served as the 20th Poet Laureate of the United States.
North Carolina Poet Laureate. Valerie Macon (born 1950) is an American civil servant and poet. She was named by Governor Pat McCrory as the eighth North Carolina Poet Laureate, a position she was set to hold from 2014 to 2016. [1] Appointed on July 11, 2014, she resigned on July 17, 2014 amid controversy over the appointment. [2]
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2006) Poet Laureate of Virginia (2008–10) Guggenheim Fellowship (2011) Claudia Emerson (January 13, 1957 – December 4, 2014) [1] was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife, [2][3] and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008.