by admin | May 4, 2025 | Feature, MCYPL
On May 2nd, the National Youth Poet Laureate Program, a program curated by Urban Word NYC, named Evan Wang the 2025 National Youth Poet Laureate out of four regional finalists from across the nation. This title, made popular by Amanda Gorman, who was the first...
by admin | Apr 3, 2025 | 2025, Feature, MCYPL, MCYPL winner, Poet Laureate
2025 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Tina Ramberg-Michael is a ninth grader at Cheltenham High School. She took first place in the poetry slam at the Delaware Valley Consortium for Equity and Excellence and has published her poetry with Young Inklings. Outside...
by admin | Apr 3, 2025 | 2025, Feature, Poet Laureate
Poet Laureate 2025 Steve Pollack hit half-balls with broomsticks, rode the Frankford El to Drexel University, sailed the equator on the U.S.S. Enterprise, crossed the Mississippi with two kittens and a mustache. He advised governments, directed an affordable housing...
by admin | Jan 27, 2025 | 2025, Feature, Judges, MCYPL, MCYPL Judge, Uncategorized
Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), a New York Times Book Review critics pick, NPR Best Book of 2023, and finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poem-a-Day, and Ploughshares, and she...
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...
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