Poet Laureate of Kansas information

The Poet Laureate of Kansas is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Kansas. The program is managed by the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission...

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems...

Wyatt Townley is an American poet, author, and yoga instructor, honored as the fourth Kansas Poet Laureate (2013–2015). Townley is a fourth-generation...

Jonathan Holden, the first Poet Laureate of Kansas, was a Professor of English at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Chosen in 2004, his two-year...

Eric McHenry (born April 12, 1972 Topeka, Kansas) is an American poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Kansas from 2015-2017. McHenry is a 5th-generation...

Denise Low (born 1949) is an American poet, honored as the second Kansas poet laureate (2007–2009). A professor at Haskell Indian Nations University, Low...

of Chicago, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position she held until her death 32 years later. She was also named the U.S. Poet...

a weekly column for the newspaper. May Converse was named the Poet Laureate of Kansas in 1928. Elizabeth left college to marry her first husband, Clyde...

Walter Bargen (born c. 1945) is an American poet, the first Poet Laureate of Missouri, a position which he held from February 13, 2008 to January 2010...

was Oklahoma's fourth poet laureate, appointed in 1943 by Governor Robert S. Kerr. Young was born Della Iona Cann in Holton, Kansas on February 8, 1872...

also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms (after Robert Pinsky). Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation (Este...

American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, and author whose 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock...

School in Ellinwood, Kansas. In 1982, Kloefkorn was appointed State Poet of Nebraska, a position roughly equivalent to Poet Laureate. (In 1921, the Nebraska...

department beginning in 1894. Miller was considered the territorial poet laureate of Oklahoma. C.W. Moulton published Oklahoma and Other Poems in 1895,...

(born November 8, 1953) is a Navajo poet and a lecturer in Native American Studies. She is the first poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, succeeded by Laura...

awarded to a total of 954 individuals and 27 organizations as of 2022[update]. The United States has the highest number of Nobel laureates in the world, with...

The Kansas Turnpike is a 236-mile (380 km) controlled-access toll road that lies entirely within the US state of Kansas. It runs in a general southwest–northeast...

Oklahoma) is the first poet laureate of Norman, Oklahoma. Norman was the first city in Oklahoma to appoint a poet laureate. She was born in Antlers...

ISBN 9780990320432. "Catholic Youth Made Oklahoma Poet Laureate". The Catholic Advance. Wichita, Kansas. September 5, 1931. p. 16 – via newspapers.com....

the Oklahoma Poet Laureate from 1945 to 1946. Since no poet laureate was appointed directly after her, Truitt also served as poet laureate emeritus from...

University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan...

Bruce Dethlefsen is an American poet and teacher of poetry. He was Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2011–2012, having been appointed by Governor James Doyle...