Mass Poetry has 12,000 current members and has held its annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival since its inception in 2008. Johnson said he hopes the person chosen as the state poet laureate can ...

Massachusetts to have first-ever poet laureate WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western ...

On May 30, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gained its first poet laureate, joining 46 other states and the District of ...

Massachusetts-based poets watch as Gov. Maura Healey signs an executive order creating a position of poet laureate for the state. (SHNS) ...

At an event February 3, 2025, about the executive order creating the first-ever state poet laureate, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and behind her (left-to-right) are Brian Boyles, Mass ...

Submit a Letter to the Editor | Meet the Editorial Board OPINION Is poetry useless? Massachusetts will finally get its first poet laureate. By Lloyd Schwartz Updated February 18, 2025, 3:00 a.m.

Prior to announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without one By Julian E.J. Sorapuru Globe Staff,Updated February 4, 2025, 10:31 a.m.

Here in Massachusetts, the poet laureate will advise an outreach program for schools to foster a love of poetry in students. “I think that the truth is that poets and poetry have had a profound ...