by admin | Mar 4, 2024 | 2024, Feature, MCYPL
Becoming an Urban Word Affiliate has been a long-term goal for the MCYPL Program. As a humanities program established in the suburbs of Philadelphia, the resources and support from a national organization such as Urban Word, which runs the National Youth Poet Laureate...
by admin | Oct 17, 2023 | 2024, Feature, MCYPL, MCYPL Judge
Michelle Taransky teaches professional, creative and academic writing at Penn. Taransky received a BA in English with honors from The University of Chicago and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. The author of Sorry Was In...
by admin | Apr 1, 2023 | 2022, 2023, Feature, Poet Laureate
Poet Laureate 2023 Jenny Burkholder is a writer and teacher who lives and works in Elkins Park. Her poetry chapbook, Repaired, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. Her poems have been published in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, North American...
by admin | Oct 5, 2022 | 2022, Feature, MCYPL, MCYPL winner, Poet Laureate
We are proud to announce Evan Wang as the Youth Poet Laureate for 2022 王潇/Evan Wang is a young writer and performance artist from Pennsylvania. His work is forthcoming or has been published in VIBE, Philadelphia Stories, National Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is...
by admin | Sep 17, 2022 | 2023, Feature, Judges
Gilad Jaffe is an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Originally from New York City, he holds a BA in Written Arts from Bard College where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in...
by admin | Apr 1, 2022 | 2022, 2022, Feature, Poet Laureate
Poet Laureate 2022 Jennifer Schneider Jen Schneider is an educator who lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Pennsylvania. She loves words, experimental poetry, and the change of seasons. She’s also a fan of late nights, crossword puzzles, and compelling...
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