laureate
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Poet Laureate, are “deft” and “counterintuitive, but never contrarian.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
Diebiru-Ojo, who was named an Africa Food Prize Laureate last month alongside Kenya's Mary Abukutsa-Onyango, is quick to talk of a "revolution of the cassava sector" in Nigeria.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
According to their Academy of American Poets profile, they received its Laureate Fellowship in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2025
Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s Poet Laureate, has attracted legions of fans with their spoken word poems, including, “Acceptance Speech after Setting the World Record in Goosebumps.”
From Salon • Feb. 3, 2025
Before long, Handel’s English-language oratorios even featured home-grown English singer-soloists, too, fulfilling contemporary actor-playwright and Poet Laureate Colley Cibber’s aspiration to ‘reconcile Musick to the English Tongue’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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