Q&A: Meera Dasgupta Named National Youth Poet Laureate

The 2020 National Youth Poet Laureate talks about the intersection of poetry and activism, creativity during the pandemic, and more.
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The 2020 National Youth Poet Laureate talks about the intersection of poetry and activism, creativity during the pandemic, and more.
Adrian Matejka, Robin Coste Lewis, and Paisley Rekdal are among the thirteen recipients of the inaugural Poets Laureate Fellowships.
The accomplished poet shares her thoughts on her new role and plans to raise awareness and appreciation of poetry at a national level.
In a new memoir, Poet Warrior, published by W. W. Norton in September, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo travels the roads, rivers, and rhythms of her life, taking readers on a journey across generations.
“We are all authors. Let us acknowledge everyone.” —Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Every Day We Get More Illegal
Joy Harjo has been named the twenty-third Poet Laureate of the United States.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has named Tracy K. Smith the next poet laureate of the United States.