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
• South Dakota’s first poet laureate lived much of his life alone in a prim cabin in the heart of Custer State Park.
  — Carson Vaughan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
• 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
• She was named the United States’ poet laureate in 2003.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The United States has a new poet laureate, and the appointment is a historic one.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 19 June 2019
• That's when Seacord reached out to Truax, the city's 12th poet laureate.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 16 Aug. 2020
• Mottley, born and raised in Oakland, served as the city's youth poet laureate in 2018.
  — Hillel Italie, ajc, 7 June 2022
• Compared to my grasp of Spanish, Puig speaks English like the poet laureate.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2019
• 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
• Ray Davies was one of rock’s great eccentric wits, the poet laureate of London’s dead-end streets, always rooting for the losers and the outsiders.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2024
• Joy Harjo was named to a second term as U.S. poet laureate.
  — Fortune, 1 May 2020
• From the former poet laureate Billy Collins: Enjoy the cruise, friends.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Harjo will begin her term as poet laureate this fall, taking over from Tracy K. Smith, who has served in the role since 2017.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2019
• Edgar Guest, who was once Michigan’s poet laureate and started out as a journalist with the Free Press, was a member.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019
• Brent Babb of Dead Hot is widely considered the poet laureate of that entire scene.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 2 July 2019
• 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
• In 2009, she was named poet laureate of her adopted hometown.
  — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The new poet laureate took the stage at Newlab at Michigan Central in the most Moore way — by poetically thanking officials for her position and reading a poem.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024