How to Use poet laureate in a Sentence

poet laureate

noun
  • Sergio is nearing the end of her term as the town’s first poet laureate.
    — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The new poet laureate talks about the great news and plans for the laureateship.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Wilson was called the poet laureate of surf culture.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The youth poet laureate does readings at the Free Library and all over the city.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The next poet laureate will receive a stipend of $6,000 per year.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 7 June 2026
  • An icon amongst icons, Dylan is the musical poet laureate of his time.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Later that year, he was named Illinois’ first honorary poet laureate.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
  • The city of Cincinnati's poet laureate said poetry should reflect truth and be talked about.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Sze, 75, began his first term as poet laureate last fall, during a time of upheaval at the library.
    — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The nonprofit noted the poet laureate program was at risk.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Perhaps this is the job of the poet laureate—proving the impossible.
    — Carmen Maria MacHado, ELLE, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The United States has a new poet laureate, and the appointment is a historic one.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 19 June 2019
  • One of the members is Alejandro Murguía, who has been the city’s poet laureate.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Compared to my grasp of Spanish, Puig speaks English like the poet laureate.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2019
  • That's when Seacord reached out to Truax, the city's 12th poet laureate.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 16 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Brent Babb of Dead Hot is widely considered the poet laureate of that entire scene.
    — Ed Masley, azcentral, 2 July 2019
  • There is a reason the Pulitzer Prize winner is the poet laureate of the United States.
    — Hope Wabuke, The Root, 11 Feb. 2018
  • This morning’s must reads The poet laureate with a bold plan to get Boyle Heights students into the woods — and on the stage.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Candiace says, continuing her reign as poet laureate of the castle.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Adding to the import of the tour was the presence of Allen Ginsberg, the counterculture’s poet laureate.
    — latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • 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
  • The outgoing youth poet laureate is Naisha Randhar.
    — María Ramos Pacheco, Dallas Morning News, 8 Apr. 2026

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