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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Regie Gibson, an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music and an instructor at Clark University, has been selected as Massachusetts’ first Poet Laureate. Governor Maura Healey made the ...