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'Changing the world': Poet Amanda Gorman on new children's book
Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Four years later, she’s helping children find their voice with her new picture ...
The Boston Globe10d
Governor Healey creates Massachusetts poet laureate role
Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish a poet laureate of Massachusetts. Applications for the position are not yet open, but the eventual appointee will be responsible ...
Telegram14d
Why's it called that? Literary roads lead to Poet Hill neighborhood in Worcester
Hemans Street is traced to 19th-century English poet Felicia Hemans. Bremer Street? That's nod to Fredrika Bremer, a Swedish writer. Milton Street recognizes Englishman John Milton. Whittier ...
The Boston Globe7d
Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of Jamaica
PROVIDENCE — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University literary arts professor, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As part of his role, Dawes will be charged with “stimulating a greater ...
PBS28d
Poet Amanda Gorman pens tribute to crews battling the Los Angeles wildfires
Renowned poet and Los Angeles native Amanda Gorman has penned a heartfelt tribute to first responders battling the wildfires and helping those in need. In "Smoldering Dawn," she expresses her ...
USA Today5d
Jalen Hurts wore a dazzling eggplant purple suit to Super Bowl 2025
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts really pulled up to the 2025 Super Bowl in a (eggplant?) purple suit, and I’m not mad about it at all. Listen, not very many people can pull off a monochrome look.
The Hollywood Reporter28d
David Lynch Was L.A.’s Dark Poet Laureate (Guest Column)
He was the poet laureate this city never knew it had. We just never realized it because his iconic drawl so seamlessly blended into the background here: whether it was hearing him give the weather ...
The Forward8d
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses’ a Jewish poet’s bookstore rises back to life
Saba, a Jewish poet and novelist, didn’t have a marquee name when he bought the bookstore in 1919, but he became one of Italy’s leading writers during the decades he ran it, and he ...
The Atlantic29d
David Lynch Was America’s Cinematic Poet
If the American experience had a cinematic poet, it was him. The news that Lynch had left us was shocking only because it seemed that he’d be here with us forever.
The Hindu13d
Nirmala Sitharaman quotes Telugu poet Gurajada Apparao during Budget speech. Who was he?
Calling the next five years as an “unique opportunity” to realise ‘sabka vikas’ (development for all), she said, “The great Telugu poet and playwright Gurajada Apparao has said ‘A ...
The New York Times29d
The Desperate Housewife Whose Face Launched a Thousand Ships
In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...