poet laureate

With a vintage typewriter and an open ear, L.A.’s poet laureate, Brian Sonia-Wallace, is turning terminal anxiety into moments of quiet revelation and connection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 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

Mr. Gioia is the former poet laureate of California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Glasgow's poet laureate Jim Carruth says the closure has also hit writers.

From BBC ● 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