The Poet Laureate serves to foster awareness, appreciation, and engagement with poetry throughout our state. Due to a high number of requests, we cannot guarantee the poet laureate will be available.
To bring the poet laureate to a ONLINE community event, apply here.
To bring the poet laureate to an IN-PERSON community event, apply here.
To ask the laureate to send a prerecorded video message to your event, click here.
For press inquiries, click here.
I didn’t know that this existed but as an aspiring teen poet, it is great to know that there are people in this state that are like this. I wish that there were more poetry reading venues where I am from but knowing that there are people out here supporting poets is absolutely amazing.