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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
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