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The selected poet laureate will be notified in March 2025.
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Asher Price, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
America’s poet laureate, the incandescent Ada Limón, was asked to write a poem that would be inscribed on the spacecraft.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Wilkinson is former poet laureate from Kentucky and a member of the Affrilachian Poets collective who has helped shift perceptions of Appalachian culture and rural Black America.
—Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
The backstory: The Austin poet laureate program was established through the efforts of local poet KB Brookins.
—Asher Price, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
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Asher Price, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
America’s poet laureate, the incandescent Ada Limón, was asked to write a poem that would be inscribed on the spacecraft.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Wilkinson is former poet laureate from Kentucky and a member of the Affrilachian Poets collective who has helped shift perceptions of Appalachian culture and rural Black America.
—Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
The backstory: The Austin poet laureate program was established through the efforts of local poet KB Brookins.
—Asher Price, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
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