Poet Laureate

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Award-winning novelist and poet Linda LeGarde Grover shares her thoughts on the selection of Joy Harjo as the first Native American Poet Laureate. Linda…

Duluth's newly-minted poet laureate, Ellie Schoenfeld, reads from her work and talks poetry, pretension, community ... and the value of following an idea…

Women's Words on January 5, 2014 was an encore airing of an episode from February 10, 2013 featuring Duluthian Jill Hinners reading two poems, "Forgive…

Women's Words on December 29, 2013 was an encore airing of an episode from December 30, 2012 featuring Deborah Cooper, Duluth's Poet Laureate, reading two…

Women's Words on December 22, 2013 featured an encore airing of an episode from December 23, 2012 featuring Deborah Cooper, Duluth's Poet Laureate,…

Sheila Packa, a former Duluth poet laureate, reads two poems, "Not Just Bread," a found poem from the writings of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and "Oliver…

Women's Words on August 4, 2013 featured Sheila Packa, a former Duluth poet laureate, reading two poems, "My Geology" and "Medicine on the Iron Range,"…

Women's Words on February 10, 2013 featured Jill Hinners of Duluth reading two poems, "Forgive Me" and "Waiting for the Northern…

Women's Words on January 6, 2013 featured Jill Hinners of Duluth reading two poems, "Interrupted" and…