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Detroit’s composer laureate, Patrick Prouty, will perform his first concert in the role at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The concert will feature two parts ...
Andrew Bell, known as the the Sacramento Poet Laureate Andru Defeye, sits below a poem by José Montoya, also a former Sacramento Poet Laureate, amid regional artist Troy Corliss’ “Poet’s ...
Have past tariffs attempts succeeded? Paul Krugman, a professor of economics at the City University of New York and Nobel laureate, says that the results from the past century have not been positive.
But she doesn't have a degree in English, which you might expect from North Haven's second poet laureate. "I don't come from a traditional background," she said regarding the new two-year position ...
A winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how she wanted to be a makeup artist in her small village in northern Iraq before her life was nearly destroyed by the Islamic ...
Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd discusses being named the new Michigan Poet Laureate. Detroit native Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd has been named Michigan’s new poet laureate by The Michigan Department of Education ...
Jason Magabo Perez served as San Diego poet laureate from 2023 to 2024. Paola Capó-García's term runs from 2025 to 2027. Outgoing Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez shares the lessons he's learned ...
As a boy growing up in war-torn Lebanon, I never could have imagined that moving to America would lead me to a life in science. I grew up amid civil war in Lebanon, where my family had sought ...
Wright Museum of African American History. City officials announced Patrick Prouty as the new composer laureate on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. “While I write music in all kinds of genres,” he ...
And she’s currently working on a third. For those reasons and more, Hanson has been named the first-ever Costa Mesa Poet Laureate, a position that runs for two years and will see the UC Irvine ...
For many people, the term Poet Laureate may draw some blank faces, and understandably so, since poetry isn’t something many people are interested in, at least not actively. But there is a deep ...
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias says he has had his visa to enter the United States revoked. Arias, 84, said he doesn’t know why his visa was canceled ...