poet laureate
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Tennyson became the only poet laureate to be elevated to the House of Lords.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Mr. Gioia is the former poet laureate of California.
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
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
