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 19, 2024 | 2024, Feature, Poet Laureate
Poet Laureate 2024 Lisa DeVuono is a poet and printmaker living in Ambler. Recently retired, she has worked as a librarian in a variety of medical and community-based settings, most recently with the Cheltenham Township Library System, creating and promoting adult...
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 | 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...
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