by admin | Jan 10, 2025 | 2025, MCYPL, Uncategorized
On January 10th, the National Youth Poet Laureate Program, a program of Urban Word NYC, named Evan Wang, a senior at the Upper Merion Area High School, the 9th Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, making him one of four finalists in the running...
by admin | Sep 26, 2024 | 2025, Feature, Poet Laureate
Shawn R. Jones was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She is a 2023 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, and her poetry collection, Date of Birth, has won the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of two...
by admin | Sep 26, 2024 | 2024, Feature, Poet Laureate
Poet, community arts practitioner, founder of the Healing Verse Poetry Line and co-administrator of “ConsenSIS” a year long project to survey, gather, and memorialize Black women poets in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas. Mayson was born in Liberia and raised in...
by admin | May 8, 2024 | Feature, MCYPL
The Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Program is honored and proud to be one of 250 recipients of the 2024 Taco Bell Foundation’s Ambition Accelerator Prize! With this award comes a $500 grant and MYCPL will move on to the next round of judging. The 75...
by admin | Apr 19, 2024 | 2024, Feature, MCYPL, MCYPL winner, Poet Laureate
2024 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Emi Maeda is a Junior at The Baldwin School. Her work has appeared in the NY Seikatsu Newspaper, The Rising Phoenix Review, The Kenyon Young Writer’s Anthology, and more, and she is the first-place winner of the...
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