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Recent Examples of poet laureate
Like so many others in the city, Christensen, the city’s poet laureate emerita and founding member of Fox Valley Music Foundation.
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Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Co-editors are award-winning former Minneapolis poet laureate Heid E. Erdrich and Minnesota poet laureate Gwen Nell Westerman.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
In addition to La Lulu and Making Movies, the Main Stage lineup includes The Salvation Choir, Beau Bledsoe and Kansas City poet laureate Melissa Ferrer Civil.
—Dan Kelly
july 25, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2025
And, with The Lowdown, Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo is staking a claim as the state’s TV laureate (to differentiate him from Joy Harjo, no relation and our former national poet laureate).
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Co-editors are award-winning former Minneapolis poet laureate Heid E. Erdrich and Minnesota poet laureate Gwen Nell Westerman.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
In addition to La Lulu and Making Movies, the Main Stage lineup includes The Salvation Choir, Beau Bledsoe and Kansas City poet laureate Melissa Ferrer Civil.
—Dan Kelly
july 25, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2025
And, with The Lowdown, Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo is staking a claim as the state’s TV laureate (to differentiate him from Joy Harjo, no relation and our former national poet laureate).
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poet laureate
poet
Noun
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Wolitzer’s debut novel, about a trio of college students each obsessed with a different dead poet, is both a striking coming-of-age story and a compelling portrait of grief.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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Of course, The Waterboys have a brilliant songbook to draw from — with Scott being one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll poets of the last half century.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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