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the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain
the poet laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions -
a poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary position in a particular group or region
she is the poet laureate of all lyricists
he is the poet laureate of Arkansas
How To Use poet laureate In A Sentence
- He was excellently placed to be the next Poet Laureate when the position fell vacant in ninety-six.
- The winner of the award will be announced by the 2008-2009 Poet Laureate and Chair of the Museums Libraries and Archives Council, Andrew Motion, on 15 July 2009 at CILIP's biennial Umbrella 2009 conference, held at The DeHavilland Campus, University of Herfordshire in Hatfield CILIP Libraries Change Lives Award 2009 finalists
- Former U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan ("The Best of It") and prize-winning poet-translator Anne Carson ("Nox") were poetry finalists, along with Kathleen Graber's "The Eternal City," Terrance Hayes' "Lighthead" and C.D. Nominees Revealed For Prestigious Book Awards
- Wordsworth enters St John's, and publishes his first poem. He later became Poet Laureate.
- A talk among three former U.S. poet laureates, and the current laureate was especially telling.
- The interesting thing is that he wrote this nonsense in October 2001-months before New Jersey officials appointed him their Poet Laureate.
- Andrew Motion has been sounded out, but has declared himself uninterested at present while he remains Poet Laureate.
- Fran Landesman is still the poet laureate of lovers and losers: her songs are the secret diaries of the desperate and the decadent.
- A panel accompanying a report on the search for a Scottish poet laureate, the makar, anticipated the decision of the judges of the 2010 TS Eliot prize, due on 24 January. Corrections and clarifications
- She was appointed poet laureate of Illinois in 1968 and has been perhaps more active than many laureates.
