by admin | Apr 17, 2026 | 2026, Feature, Judges, MCYPL, MCYPL Judge, Uncategorized
Kate Jaworski is co-founder and Executive Director of Norristown Page Turners, a nonprofit supporting youth literacy and book access. She is also co-founder of Recycle Read Repeat, Norristown’s only bookstore. She served for 14 years in Philadelphia as an...
by admin | Oct 23, 2025 | 2026, Feature, Poet Laureate
John Timpane is the former Books Editor and Theater Critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has appeared in, among other places, Sequoia, Apiary, Cleaver, Painted Bride Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Vocabula Review, Tiferet, and in two chapbooks,...
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...
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