How to Use poet laureate in a Sentence

poet laureate

noun

• The road to being a youth poet laureate is a long one, at least in the timespan of teenager.
  — Danielle Broadway, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• She was named the 24th poet laureate of the United States on Tuesday.
  — Jess Eng, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
• Peary: The role of poet laureate is pretty much by and large self-defined.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• The country's next poet laureate, Ada Limón, has long thought of her work as a public art form.
  — Hillel Italie, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
• Ada Limón, the 24th poet laureate of the United States, called each student up to read their winning work.
  — Darlene Superville, ajc, 27 Sep. 2022
• In the barn, time slips backward as a 15-minute video features the late poet laureate reciting his own verse.
  — Diane Speare Triant, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• This fall, something out among the stars will be staring back at Limón, who grew up to become the U.S. poet laureate.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• Mottley, born and raised in Oakland, served as the city's youth poet laureate in 2018.
  — Hillel Italie, ajc, 7 June 2022
• Jamaica’s poet laureate, Olive Senior, stops to embrace old friends at the entrance to the grounds, making plans to catch up soon.
  — Anderson Tepper, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• Christine McVie was the poet laureate of the Morning After.
  — Alfred Soto, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
• The city poet laureate is a first-time program backed by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, which will fund the stipends paid to the poets selected.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 15 Sep. 2023
• So for example, the crown and laurel is where the word poet laureate comes from, which I've been honored to be given that title.
  — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• Perhaps this is the job of the poet laureate—proving the impossible.
  — Carmen Maria MacHado, ELLE, 30 Jan. 2023
• Jones, at 31, is the youngest-ever poet laureate for Alabama and is also the first person of color to be named to the position.
  — al, 14 Dec. 2021
• Marcus Amaker, who moved to Charleston in 2003 (a cum yah, not a bin yah, as a Gullah speaker would put it) and is the city’s first poet laureate, concurs.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2022
• The first national youth poet laureate of the United States, Gorman was our April book club author.
  — Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Chicano writer and artist Nephtali De León says he was humbled to be named the city's newest poet laureate.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2023
• But even the poet laureate of the preppies would acknowledge that there’s an unspoken dress code to follow.
  — Tyler McCall, Town & Country, 19 Jan. 2023
• Only the Red Sox would be presumptuous enough to name a poet laureate.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• That won’t be the case with Lamar’s concert in Rwanda on Dec. 6, which will also feature artists from the region as well as the American hip-hop poet laureate.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• Only the state didn't seem to have a poet laureate, despite already having funded that position for a year and a half.
  — Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
• In the United States, the librarian of Congress has been appointing a poet laureate since the 1930s.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2023
• In 2007, Hirschman was named poet laureate of San Francisco.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
• Also part of the vigil was a poem written by new Elgin poet laureate Gareth Mann and a moment of silence.
  — Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2022
• Next, the poet laureate will share feedback on the poem and offer suggestions.
  — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
• The award-winning poet was named Alabama’s youngest and first Black poet laureate.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 29 Dec. 2021
• To me, Robert Hunter is basically the poet laureate of Marin County or something.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• Gibson, who died five years ago at 73, became known as the flower-holding poet laureate of sorts on the satirical comedy show in the late ’60s.
  — Lauren Beale, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• Paisley Rekdal ended her five-year term as Utah’s poet laureate in April.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2022
• The poet laureate of the underground garage deserves nothing less.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024