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There's still time to register for the Poetry & Yoga Mini-Retreat led by Shannon Cody and I on Sunday, 23 March! Join us!!

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The fires postponed the MLK Day of Service to yesterday morning at the West Hollywood Elementary School. I’m thankful that I got to share these two poems to the great group of volunteers yesterday showing up for community service. #jamesbaldwin #communityservice

Tompkins County appoints a new Poet Laureate. Who is he and what are his responsibilities? Tompkins County appointed its 12th Poet Laureate on Tuesday. Find out who he is and what the position entails.

"I believe poetry offers us valuable opportunities to slow down, to reflect, and to extend our empathy, and I’m excited to share these gifts with our whole community.” ~ Dan Rosenberg, The NEW Poet Laureate of Tompkins County, NY

#poetlaureate #tompkinscountyny #poetry

New Poet Laureate announced Janet Kvammen has been appointed as the next Poet Laureate (2025-2027) for the City of New Westminster. Janet is a local poet and visual artist, Vice-President of New West Artists, and President and founding board member of the Royal City Literary Arts Society. She is the recipient of the 2023 Bernie Legge Artist of the Year awarded by the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce. Janet has a passion and enthusiasm for, and deep and long-standing connection to, the local literary arts community. Through the course of her three-year term Janet will serve as a literary ambassador for the City, presenting readings at civic events reflecting on the life of the city and developing opportunities to engage the wider community to participate in and appreciate the literary arts.

Wonderful news! Janet is such a champion of the poetry community😍 #NewWestminster #PoetLaureate

Hickory Launches New Poet Laureate Program - WHKY The City of Hickory Library Advisory Board is promoting literacy and communal appreciation of poetry by selecting a poet laureate as part of a new Poet Laureate Program. The Poet…

The City of Hickory, North Carolina, is launching their poet laureate program! Applications due March 31st.

#poetlaureate #hickorync #poetry

Three cheers for Mike Jurkovic, the NEW Poet Laureate of Ulster County, NY! 👏 👏 👏

One of my poems up on #TheMilkHouse. Big thank you to editor Ryan Dennis. Read the others here: www.themilkhouse.org/i-confess-an... #ohiopoetlaureate

This week.
See you soon! 🙌🏽💛🌻

Details at AmandaJohnston.com

Poet Laureate and Beyond 2024
A retrospective of a poet laureate’s end of term
a memoir essay by Wendy Van Camp
Found on #medium
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#essay #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers #poetlaureate #poetrycommunity #poets #poetry #sfpoetry

Congratulations to @ShellyConley, newly inaugurated Milwaukee Public Library 2025-2026 Poet Laureate! #mpl #poetlaureate #poetry #libraries #milwaukee

This is the LAST WEEK to snag early bird pricing for Sowing Seeds: Creating Intention Through Poetry & Yoga, the one-day mini-retreat led by Shannon Cody and I!

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City prepares for poets laureate - Sedona Red Rock News Changes are planned for several of the ways in which the Sedona City Council shows support for the arts in Sedona following discussions on Dec. 12, the second day of council’s annual priority retreat,...

Looking forward to seeing who Sedona chooses as their inaugural poets laureate!

Today's find on Bsky is West Hollywood City Poet Laureate @jencvoice.bsky.social's holiday poetry hotline. Phone the library in Dec. to hear recorded poems and on Dec 21st to request live personalized poems!

Check out @poetslaureate.bsky.social for more #poetry links.

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Thank you! And @jencvoice.bsky.social is a wonderful and engaging laureate. Great find! And be sure to call the poetry hotline this month!

SUCH A JOY to be selected for the 2024 Gift Guide for Book Lovers by Southern Literary Review! See the entire list here: southernlitreview.com/reviews/9777... #ohiopoetlaureate #EastOverPress
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I won’t ever stop advocating for kids or color who haven’t been exposed to the arts. They are not dumb, they aren’t without class- they just know the world differently than you. I teach them and I know I am building them up to be a better reader and writer than I ever was.

Ya girl as one of the featured readers today at Ford’s Colony Country Club for The Poetry Society of VA; + met new VA Poet Laureate Mattie Quesenberry Smith 🪴 Read from my new book CAULBEARER @blacklawrence.bsky.social 💕
It’s always a glowy afternoon if it’s got poets and poetry in it.

San Antonio poet laureate hosts writing workshop on food form poetry | Texas A&M University-San Antonio | TAMUSA San Antonio Poet Laureate Eduardo Vega engaged with students last week how freshly baked sweet bread can explore deep messages of religion and culture in poetry. Vega narrated Texas Poet Laureate Jess...

“Food poetry isn’t about food. Food is about culture. Food is about language. Food is about gatherings, spaces, and your family. Food is about history and trauma.’’ ~ Eddie Vega, Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX @eltacolico.bsky.social

#poetlaureate #sanantonio #foodculture #poetry

Town of Chapel Hill Seeking Applicants for Next Poet Laureate - Chapelboro.com The Town of Chapel Hill's current poet laureate, Cortland Gilliam, will have his term expire at the end of the year.

Town of Chapel Hill Seeking Applicants for Next Poet Laureate
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Congrats to @melidarodas.bsky.social and thanks to
@edvigegiunta.bsky.social for mentoring her! I love that more and more cities and towns have poet laureates.

#poetry #poets #poetlaureate

Washington State Poet Laureate - ArtsWA

Attention WA State poets: Nominations are open for the Washington State Poet Laureate for 2025-2027. Applications are due December 6th.

Apply and may the force be with you!

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#WashingtonState #PoetLaureate

Mayor names new poet laureate, honors retirees - Mississippi's Best Community Newspaper Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NATCHEZ — Natchez flags were at half-staff Tuesday in honor of former Natchez banker and long-time city clerk Donnie Holloway. Holloway was buried today in N...

I was searching for poets laureate of Mississippi towns, learned that Natchez, MS, has a new poet laureate! Congratulations to Joyce Washington Ivery!

#poetlaureate #poetry #natchez #mississippi

Minneapolis poet laureate Heid E. Erdrich presents official poem to the city Heid E. Erdrich was honored at the Minneapolis American Indian Center on Thursday for her time as poet laureate. She presented her community-inspired poem, “Poem for Minneapolis/Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Gakaab...

“Don’t be afraid of poetry. Poetry has its role in how we think about the world, and especially at times when people need hope and vision and tenacity that can be found in poetry.” ~ Heid E. Erdrich, Poet Laureate of Minneapolis, MN

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1- Biboon/Waniyetu/Winter This is the city dreaming in its original language. Dakota home mapped on astronomical planes so streets still chart the stars, tell us where to be in each season. River at spring equinox, sun up. Lake at fall equinox, sun down. Winter quiets us makes the perfect place to listen to hear one another. This is the city dreaming into frozen spaces in a bare year, silence broken by wishes: calling for ceasefire, calling down the snow, calling for a safe place, a home.

2- Ziigwan/Wetú//Spring This is a city waking without enough rest. Franklin Avenue charts the stars, spring equinox - sunrise at the river. Too warm, but yeah, sometimes it snows in April. We howl in the streets for the Wolves while encampments pop up here and there, guns pop here, someone’s shot there. Still, on Earth Day a child says every day the city is “a kid and mom on a bike.” Bde Óta Othúŋwe, your people say you are green, alive, busy, sirens, traffic, separate, divided, diverse, better together. Gakaabikaang, you are: eagles over the river, community care, dog walking, good coffee, creative grit, sacred space. City of Lakes, you are also your river, springs and creeks.

3- Niibin/Bdóketu/Summer Rain rain rain Green green green Construction season again and the traffic’s insane –whatever it takes for the bike and bus lanes. Gakaabikaang, your people want solutions, peace, safety, homes, houses, help for unhoused relatives, trees, trees, trees, bike lanes, theater, community, peace, peace, peace, peace, togetherness, peace, peace. Rain rain rain Green green green The Poet Laureate trips on the Library of Congress steps breaks her arm. Her cast is green. Kids sign it with their ideas for poems to match: A luna moth, a tree, an inchworm, a horsetail fern, and the greenest possibilities. In the wildflower garden, near Medicine Spring, we poets sang to the moon and listened to Minneapolis say what her people need: truth, teens and elders united, the will to help, a middle class, garden farms, fewer boundaries, art as healing, humility, mutual respect, fewer fences, deeper connection, peace.

4- Dagwaagin/Ptaŋyetu/Fall The Ave charts the stars. Fall equinox, sun sets at Cedar Lake, but at Four Sisters market, in abundance, your people say never forget: Dakota homeland, Pride, Prince, change, the uprising, May Day Parade, American Indian Movement, the birthplace of AIM. In North Minnie, poets read old maps Ȟaȟá Wakpádaŋ/Bassett Creek Bde Maka Ska, Mni Owe Sni/Cold Water Spring. “Manoominike” atop Northeast tells us Ojibwe worked wild rice there, long before Anoka. Near Owamni we feel creeks and springs flow under streets to the base of Stone Arch without ever seeing daylight. City of Lakes, you are also your river, creeks and springs. Elders Southside tell us to remember: street cars, historic sites, Aquatennial, a spirit of gratitude, how we came together, George Floyd and May Day. They say Minneapolis could slow down, be more honest, kind, courageous, listen more with heart and joy. The city, they say, needs a sense of humor. Maybe, this year, we need a nap? We all feel winter coming on and we want our hibernation. When the city sleeps, what does it dream? Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang/Minneapolis in our future we see: more trees, green space, justice, health, wonder or horror, creativity, BIPOC leaders, fewer phones, more immigrants, compassion, love, welcome for all and “Robots speaking Dakota.” When the city dreams in seasons what does it learn? Listen to the city dreaming, calling us home in many languages. Listen to the city flowing, dreaming, moving toward its chorus learning its multiple and singular voice.

Here is what's billed as Minneapolis's first official poem.

Poem for Minneapolis
Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang

by Heid E. Erdrich

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“fine we thought we’re done with dying”

Heid E. Erdrich

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Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri.

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"Leave it to humans who name / all things seen and unseen— / all things guessed, / who name light and make it a place." ✨

Heid E. Erdrich, "The Invention of Time" in VERB ANIMATE

A great resource with poems, prompts, & collaborations!

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@heideerdrich.bsky.social

My poem “Marte” from Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press 2021)

Call anytime to the Holiday Poetry Hotline (310.853.3952) this week to hear Kim Dower read her new poem “Fish’s Lament.” We have live operators answering your requests on Saturday December 21st 2pm-5pm Pacific (call us from anywhere!). Please share this with your loved ones.