poet laureate
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But he articulated things that hadn’t been part of the American grain, becoming his country’s poet laureate of nature and ethics and its hippie Founding Father.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 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
The intimate portrait of Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson, who faces a terminal diagnosis with a spirit of resilience, needed the boost.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 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
