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 | 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 | 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 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...
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