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Celebrating and uplifting the official poets of our communities who celebrate and uplift all of us! | Not linked to any government organization | also on IG & Threads at @poetslaureate.us | linktr.ee/poetslaureate

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Courtney LeBlanc @wordperv.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
There's still time to register for the Poetry & Yoga Mini-Retreat led by Shannon Cody and I on Sunday, 23 March! Join us!! Register here: courtneyleblanc.com/poetry-yoga-...
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Jen Cheng @jencvoice.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The fires postponed the MLK Day of Service to yesterday morning at the West Hollywood Elementary School. I’m thankful that I got to share these two poems to the great group of volunteers yesterday showing up for community service. #jamesbaldwin #communityservice
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PoetsLaureate.us @poetslaureate.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"I believe poetry offers us valuable opportunities to slow down, to reflect, and to extend our empathy, and I’m excited to share these gifts with our whole community.” ~ Dan Rosenberg, The NEW Poet Laureate of Tompkins County, NY #poetlaureate #tompkinscountyny #poetry
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Tompkins County appoints a new Poet Laureate. Who is he and what are his responsibilities?
Tompkins County appointed its 12th Poet Laureate on Tuesday. Find out who he is and what the position entails.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 07/02/2025
Wonderful news! Janet is such a champion of the poetry community😍 #NewWestminster #PoetLaureate
New Poet Laureate announced
Janet Kvammen has been appointed as the next Poet Laureate (2025-2027) for the City of New Westminster. Janet is a local poet and visual artist, Vice-President of New West Artists, and President and founding board member of the Royal City Literary Arts Society. She is the recipient of the 2023 Bernie Legge Artist of the Year awarded by the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce.   
 
Janet has a passion and enthusiasm for, and deep and long-standing connection to, the local literary arts community. Through the course of her three-year term Janet will serve as a literary ambassador for the City, presenting readings at civic events reflecting on the life of the city and developing opportunities to engage the wider community to participate in and appreciate the literary arts.
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PoetsLaureate.us @poetslaureate.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The City of Hickory, North Carolina, is launching their poet laureate program! Applications due March 31st. #poetlaureate #hickorync #poetry
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Hickory Launches New Poet Laureate Program - WHKY
The City of Hickory Library Advisory Board is promoting literacy and communal appreciation of poetry by selecting a poet laureate as part of a new Poet Laureate Program. The Poet…
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PoetsLaureate.us @poetslaureate.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Three cheers for Mike Jurkovic, the NEW Poet Laureate of Ulster County, NY! 👏 👏 👏
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Kari Gunter-Seymour @karigunterseymour.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
One of my poems up on #TheMilkHouse. Big thank you to editor Ryan Dennis. Read the others here: www.themilkhouse.org/i-confess-an... #ohiopoetlaureate
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Amanda Johnston @amandajohnston.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This week. See you soon! 🙌🏽💛🌻 Details at AmandaJohnston.com
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Wendy Van Camp @indigoskye.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Poet Laureate and Beyond 2024 A retrospective of a poet laureate’s end of term a memoir essay by Wendy Van Camp Found on #medium medium.com/@wvancamp/po... #essay #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers #poetlaureate #poetrycommunity #poets #poetry #sfpoetry
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marianroyal.bsky.social @marianroyal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Congratulations to @ShellyConley, newly inaugurated Milwaukee Public Library 2025-2026 Poet Laureate! #mpl #poetlaureate #poetry #libraries #milwaukee
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Courtney LeBlanc @wordperv.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This is the LAST WEEK to snag early bird pricing for Sowing Seeds: Creating Intention Through Poetry & Yoga, the one-day mini-retreat led by Shannon Cody and I! Details and registration here: courtneyleblanc.com/poetry-yoga-...
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PoetsLaureate.us @poetslaureate.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Looking forward to seeing who Sedona chooses as their inaugural poets laureate!
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City prepares for poets laureate - Sedona Red Rock News
Changes are planned for several of the ways in which the Sedona City Council shows support for the arts in Sedona following discussions on Dec. 12, the second day of council’s annual priority retreat,...
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Tricia Vita @triciavita.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Today's find on Bsky is West Hollywood City Poet Laureate @jencvoice.bsky.social's holiday poetry hotline. Phone the library in Dec. to hear recorded poems and on Dec 21st to request live personalized poems! Check out @poetslaureate.bsky.social for more #poetry links. #poets #poetrycommunity
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Kari Gunter-Seymour @karigunterseymour.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
SUCH A JOY to be selected for the 2024 Gift Guide for Book Lovers by Southern Literary Review! See the entire list here: southernlitreview.com/reviews/9777... #ohiopoetlaureate #EastOverPress #southernliteraryreview
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Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I won’t ever stop advocating for kids or color who haven’t been exposed to the arts. They are not dumb, they aren’t without class- they just know the world differently than you. I teach them and I know I am building them up to be a better reader and writer than I ever was.
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Luisa A. Igloria @thepoetslizard.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Ya girl as one of the featured readers today at Ford’s Colony Country Club for The Poetry Society of VA; + met new VA Poet Laureate Mattie Quesenberry Smith 🪴 Read from my new book CAULBEARER @blacklawrence.bsky.social 💕 It’s always a glowy afternoon if it’s got poets and poetry in it.
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PoetsLaureate.us @poetslaureate.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“Food poetry isn’t about food. Food is about culture. Food is about language. Food is about gatherings, spaces, and your family. Food is about history and trauma.’’ ~ Eddie Vega, Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX @eltacolico.bsky.social #poetlaureate #sanantonio #foodculture #poetry
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San Antonio poet laureate hosts writing workshop on food form poetry | Texas A&M University-San Antonio | TAMUSA
San Antonio Poet Laureate Eduardo Vega engaged with students last week how freshly baked sweet bread can explore deep messages of religion and culture in poetry. Vega narrated Texas Poet Laureate Jess...
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Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Town of Chapel Hill Seeking Applicants for Next Poet Laureate #PoetLaureate chapelboro.com/news/arts/to...
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Town of Chapel Hill Seeking Applicants for Next Poet Laureate - Chapelboro.com
The Town of Chapel Hill's current poet laureate, Cortland Gilliam, will have his term expire at the end of the year.
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Tricia Vita @triciavita.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Congrats to @melidarodas.bsky.social and thanks to @edvigegiunta.bsky.social for mentoring her! I love that more and more cities and towns have poet laureates. #poetry #poets #poetlaureate
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M. Terry Bowman @mterrybowman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Attention WA State poets: Nominations are open for the Washington State Poet Laureate for 2025-2027. Applications are due December 6th. Apply and may the force be with you! www.arts.wa.gov/washington-s... #WashingtonState #PoetLaureate
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Washington State Poet Laureate - ArtsWA
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PoetsLaureate.us @poetslaureate.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I was searching for poets laureate of Mississippi towns, learned that Natchez, MS, has a new poet laureate! Congratulations to Joyce Washington Ivery! #poetlaureate #poetry #natchez #mississippi
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Mayor names new poet laureate, honors retirees - Mississippi's Best Community Newspaper
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NATCHEZ — Natchez flags were at half-staff Tuesday in honor of former Natchez banker and long-time city clerk Donnie Holloway. Holloway was buried today in N...
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PoetsLaureate.us @poetslaureate.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“Don’t be afraid of poetry. Poetry has its role in how we think about the world, and especially at times when people need hope and vision and tenacity that can be found in poetry.” ~ Heid E. Erdrich, Poet Laureate of Minneapolis, MN www.mprnews.org/story/2024/1...
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Minneapolis poet laureate Heid E. Erdrich presents official poem to the city
Heid E. Erdrich was honored at the Minneapolis American Indian Center on Thursday for her time as poet laureate. She presented her community-inspired poem, “Poem for Minneapolis/Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Gakaab...
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Here is what's billed as Minneapolis's first official poem. Poem for Minneapolis Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang by Heid E. Erdrich static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6f4...
1- Biboon/Waniyetu/Winter
This is the city dreaming in its original language.
Dakota home mapped on astronomical planes
so streets still chart the stars, tell us where to be
in each season. River at spring equinox, sun up.
Lake at fall equinox, sun down.
Winter quiets us makes the perfect place
to listen to hear one another.
This is the city dreaming into frozen spaces
in a bare year, silence broken by wishes:
calling for ceasefire, calling down the snow,
calling for a safe place, a home. 2- Ziigwan/Wetú//Spring
This is a city waking without enough rest.
Franklin Avenue charts the stars, spring equinox -
sunrise at the river. Too warm, but yeah,
sometimes it snows in April. We howl in the streets
for the Wolves while encampments pop up here
and there, guns pop here, someone’s shot there.
Still, on Earth Day a child says every day the city is
“a kid and mom on a bike.” Bde Óta Othúŋwe, your people say
you are green, alive, busy, sirens, traffic, separate, divided, diverse,
better together. Gakaabikaang, you are: eagles over the river,
community care, dog walking, good coffee, creative grit, sacred space.
City of Lakes, you are also your river, springs and creeks.3- Niibin/Bdóketu/Summer
Rain rain rain Green green green
Construction season again and the traffic’s insane
–whatever it takes for the bike and bus lanes.
Gakaabikaang, your people want solutions, peace,
safety, homes, houses, help for unhoused relatives,
trees, trees, trees, bike lanes, theater, community, peace,
peace, peace, peace, togetherness, peace, peace.
Rain rain rain Green green green
The Poet Laureate trips on the Library of Congress steps
breaks her arm. Her cast is green. Kids sign it with their ideas
for poems to match: A luna moth, a tree, an inchworm,
a horsetail fern, and the greenest possibilities.
In the wildflower garden, near Medicine Spring, we poets
sang to the moon and listened to Minneapolis say what
her people need: truth, teens and elders united, the will to help,
a middle class, garden farms, fewer boundaries, art as healing,
humility, mutual respect, fewer fences, deeper connection, peace.4- Dagwaagin/Ptaŋyetu/Fall
The Ave charts the stars. Fall equinox, sun sets at Cedar Lake,
but at Four Sisters market, in abundance, your people say
never forget: Dakota homeland, Pride, Prince, change, the uprising,
May Day Parade, American Indian Movement, the birthplace of AIM.
In North Minnie, poets read old maps Ȟaȟá Wakpádaŋ/Bassett Creek
Bde Maka Ska, Mni Owe Sni/Cold Water Spring. “Manoominike” atop
Northeast tells us Ojibwe worked wild rice there, long before Anoka.
Near Owamni we feel creeks and springs flow under streets
to the base of Stone Arch without ever seeing daylight.
City of Lakes, you are also your river, creeks and springs.
Elders Southside tell us to remember: street cars, historic sites,
Aquatennial, a spirit of gratitude, how we came together, George Floyd
and May Day. They say Minneapolis could slow down, be more honest,
kind, courageous, listen more with heart and joy. The city, they say,
needs a sense of humor. Maybe, this year, we need a nap?
We all feel winter coming on and we want our hibernation.
When the city sleeps, what does it dream?
Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang/Minneapolis in our future we see:
more trees, green space, justice, health, wonder or horror, creativity,
BIPOC leaders, fewer phones, more immigrants, compassion, love,
welcome for all and “Robots speaking Dakota.”
When the city dreams in seasons what does it learn?
Listen to the city dreaming, calling us home in many languages.
Listen to the city flowing, dreaming, moving toward its chorus
 learning its multiple and singular voice.
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a wok to remember @chinesesue.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
“fine we thought we’re done with dying” Heid E. Erdrich
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Justin Hamm @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Poet Baseball Cards Series D Card #12/20 Heid E. Erdrich ​ Poet Baseball Cards thanks Osage Arts Community. OAC provides residencies for ar tists of all types in the Ozarks of Missouri. osageac.org
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"Leave it to humans who name / all things seen and unseen— / all things guessed, / who name light and make it a place." ✨ Heid E. Erdrich, "The Invention of Time" in VERB ANIMATE A great resource with poems, prompts, & collaborations! @triohousepress.bsky.social @heideerdrich.bsky.social
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Gustavo Hernandez @gustavohernandez.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
My poem “Marte” from Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press 2021)
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Jen Cheng @jencvoice.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Call anytime to the Holiday Poetry Hotline (310.853.3952) this week to hear Kim Dower read her new poem “Fish’s Lament.” We have live operators answering your requests on Saturday December 21st 2pm-5pm Pacific (call us from anywhere!). Please share this with your loved ones.
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PoetsLaureate.us @poetslaureate.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! @PoetsLaureate.us has been hoppin' on IG and Threads for the last few months, and I am curious to see what this forum has in store!
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