by admin | May 8, 2024 | 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...
by admin | Apr 3, 2024 | 2024, 2024, Feature, MCYPL
On March 25th, the five finalists for the 2024 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate were announced! Congratulations to Emi Maeda of The Baldwin School, Maya Brothers of Friends’ Central School, Samrithaa H.V. of Methacton Senior High School, Sofia Bagarazzi of...
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 | 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...
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