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- Jan 10
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
“Dragon Run” by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2006–2008 Shortly after moving to the Middle Peninsula on the east...
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Betsy Sholl
Betsy Sholl Poet Laureate of Maine, 2006-2011 When it comes to occasional poems, Terrence Des Pres in his book Praises and Dispraises...
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Paisley Rekdal
“West Train” by Paisley Rekdal Poet Laureate of Utah, 2017-2022 Paisley Reckdal responded to our query with a link to her ambitious,...
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Marjory Wentworth
“One River, One Boat” by Marjory Wentworth South Carolina Poet Laureate, 2002-2020 I take the role of poet laureate seriously; it is an...
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Ashley Jones
“I Think of You, Alabama” by Ashley Jones Alabama Poet Laureate, 2022-2026 Being Poet Laureate of any constituency has many public and...
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Margaret Britton Vaughn
“Who We Are” by Margaret Britton Vaughn Poet Laureate of Tennessee, 1995–2023 I’ve had the honor to write many of them over the past 27...
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John Warner Smith
“Sermon of the Dreamers” by John Warner Smith Poet Laureate of Louisiana, 2019–2021 Shortly after being appointed the Poet Laureate of...
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Luisa Igloria
“Where we live” by Luisa Igloria Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2020–2022 It's good to think about how the U.S. Poet Laureate position was...
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Julie Kane
“City of Lights” by Julie Kane Poet Laureate of Louisiana, 2011-2013 In 1976, when I was in my early twenties, I was the George Bennett...
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Henry Hart
“The Freedom Bell” by Henry Hart Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2018–2020 When the Dean of our library at the College of William and Mary...
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Julia Bouwsma
Maine Poet Laureate, 2021-2026 To A Mainer Living 100 years from Now Just after I was appointed Maine’s Poet Laureate in August 2021, I...
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Stuart Kestenbaum
“Kingdom of Beauty” by Stuart Kestenbaum Maine Poet Laureate, 2016-2021 When I was appointed poet laureate of Maine in 2016, one of my...
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Grace Cavalieri
Grace Cavalieri, Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2018– From Hell To Hallelujah The following poem was commissioned to celebrate the first...
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Tina Cane
Rhode Island Poet Laureate, 2016-2023 Rhode Island Valentine In his essay, “Can Poetry Save America?”* fellow poet and friend, Chard...
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Can The Occasional Poem Outlive The Occasion?
“I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work...
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