Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time. "Poets and poetry have had a profound role in our state's history," Healey ...

Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish the first-ever Massachusetts poet laureate, according to a statement from the office. Applications have not yet opened for the ...

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order establishing the Commonwealth's first-ever poet laureate.

A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...