Massachusetts to have first-ever poet laureate

Governor Healey creates Massachusetts poet laureate role - The Boston Globe

Prior to the announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without a poet laureate.

Massachusetts to have first-ever poet laureate

BOSTON (WWLP) - Governor Healey signed an executive order on Monday creating Massachusett's first poet laureate role in history. Poet laureate is an honorary position, typically given to the poet regarded as the best in the state or country. Their duties include encouraging appreciation of poetry and the arts through public readings, and cultural events, and composing poetry for ceremonial occasions. Here in Massachusetts, the poet laureate will…

State to searching for first chief poet

BOSTON — Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time.