How to Use poet laureate in a Sentence

poet laureate

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  • The road to being a youth poet laureate is a long one, at least in the timespan of teenager.
    — Danielle Broadway, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • She was named the 24th poet laureate of the United States on Tuesday.
    — Jess Eng, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • South Dakota’s first poet laureate lived much of his life alone in a prim cabin in the heart of Custer State Park.
    — Carson Vaughan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Peary: The role of poet laureate is pretty much by and large self-defined.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • The country's next poet laureate, Ada Limón, has long thought of her work as a public art form.
    — Hillel Italie, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
  • Ada Limón, the 24th poet laureate of the United States, called each student up to read their winning work.
    — Darlene Superville, ajc, 27 Sep. 2022
  • In the barn, time slips backward as a 15-minute video features the late poet laureate reciting his own verse.
    — Diane Speare Triant, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • She was named the United States’ poet laureate in 2003.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • This fall, something out among the stars will be staring back at Limón, who grew up to become the U.S. poet laureate.
    — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • That's when Seacord reached out to Truax, the city's 12th poet laureate.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Mottley, born and raised in Oakland, served as the city's youth poet laureate in 2018.
    — Hillel Italie, ajc, 7 June 2022
  • Jamaica’s poet laureate, Olive Senior, stops to embrace old friends at the entrance to the grounds, making plans to catch up soon.
    — Anderson Tepper, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • Christine McVie was the poet laureate of the Morning After.
    — Alfred Soto, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The city poet laureate is a first-time program backed by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, which will fund the stipends paid to the poets selected.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Ray Davies was one of rock’s great eccentric wits, the poet laureate of London’s dead-end streets, always rooting for the losers and the outsiders.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2024
  • Joy Harjo was named to a second term as U.S. poet laureate.
    — Fortune, 1 May 2020
  • From the former poet laureate Billy Collins: Enjoy the cruise, friends.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • So for example, the crown and laurel is where the word poet laureate comes from, which I've been honored to be given that title.
    — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Perhaps this is the job of the poet laureate—proving the impossible.
    — Carmen Maria MacHado, ELLE, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Jones, at 31, is the youngest-ever poet laureate for Alabama and is also the first person of color to be named to the position.
    — al, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In 2009, she was named poet laureate of her adopted hometown.
    — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Marcus Amaker, who moved to Charleston in 2003 (a cum yah, not a bin yah, as a Gullah speaker would put it) and is the city’s first poet laureate, concurs.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The first national youth poet laureate of the United States, Gorman was our April book club author.
    — Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Chicano writer and artist Nephtali De León says he was humbled to be named the city's newest poet laureate.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But even the poet laureate of the preppies would acknowledge that there’s an unspoken dress code to follow.
    — Tyler McCall, Town & Country, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Only the Red Sox would be presumptuous enough to name a poet laureate.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Taylor Swift, the new poet laureate of pop, released her 11th album and with it a song that is so quintessentially Taylor.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The pages are one very clear sign that her term as poet laureate is going to be different from those of her predecessors.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 24 Mar. 2020
  • That won’t be the case with Lamar’s concert in Rwanda on Dec. 6, which will also feature artists from the region as well as the American hip-hop poet laureate.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The new poet laureate took the stage at Newlab at Michigan Central in the most Moore way — by poetically thanking officials for her position and reading a poem.
    — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2024

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