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Being the city's first poet laureate is an honor, Gunn said.

Elgin's first poet laureate claims her place

The Acocks Green schoolgirl was crowned Birmingham's Young Poet Laureate at the city's Literature Festival, beating off competition from hundreds of hopefuls.

THE STUFF! WRITE; Teenager is crowned poet laureate

Aliyah Begum, 15, from Acocks Green, was also announced as the 14th Young Poet Laureate during a National Poetry Day event at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Poet Laureates revealed for Birmingham

In 2009, Carol Ann Duffy became Poet Laureate. In 2012 she was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize.

Poet Laureate will speak at cathedral

Left to right: Thomas Ellis (Professor-California State University Fresno), Mike Sell (Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA), Eugene Redmond (Poet Laureate of East St.

University of California, Merced

Just the week before the poet laureate announcement, Kamau received the 2018 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry "for his body of work, Including Elegguas, Born to Slow Horses, and Ancestors." The award recognizes "a poet whose distinguished and growing body of work represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature" (https://pen.org/2018-lifetime-career-achievement-honorees/).

Poets@Work

It was Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate since 2009, who came up with the idea of a tour with fellow poets to celebrate the country's independent bookshops.

Creative quintet taking a tour by the book (shop); The Poet Laureate is bringing some accomplished friends to Northumberland in celebration of indie bookshops, as DAVID WHETSTONE explains

NB: Few academics or journalists, embedded in the established order, will admit, let alone be capable of comprehending, that a state poet laureate is inevitably a state court jester, inoffensive to state political hacks and their cultural-council apparatchics.

The poets. Always the Faustian deal

Sampson-Haney, 61, Stockbridge, Georgia who won $100 for her poem "Unbroken." She is the daughter of 2004 National Senior Poet Laureate Barbara Ruth Sampson.

Emery L. Campbell Wins 2015 National Senior Poet Laureate Contest Award

Britain's current poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy selected a committee "of eminent men and women of letters" to select this year's gold medal winner.

Queen's gold medal for poetry to be presented to Imtiaz Dharker

poet laureate widely praised for his concentrated, elegiac verse and graceful command of both humor and despair, has died.

Mark Strand, prize-winning poet, dies in NYC

Taking over from Joanna Skelt, Adrian Blackledge has been named Birmingham's nineteenth Poet Laureate while 16-year-old Serena Arthur follows Lauren Williams as Young Poet Laureate.

Teen and prof are our Poets Laureate