poet laureate

Upcoming poetry pop-ups with the poet laureate of Los Angeles:

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

And yet here comes Simon Armitage, the poet laureate of the U.K., with his stunning new verse translation, not as a vandal of antiquity but as a lucid accomplice to its endurance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Tennyson became the only poet laureate to be elevated to the House of Lords.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Decades after her elementary school field trips, as a newly appointed poet laureate for West Hollywood, she envisioned a way to mirror this childhood experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

We named our new daughter Zindziswa, after the daughter of the poet laureate of the Xhosa people, Samuel Mqhayi, who had inspired me so many years before at Healdtown.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela