“Poetry always picks up the phone,” said Arianne True, the new poet laureate of Washington state. “It can be there for you in hard times. … When the biggest stuff has happened (in my life ...

!–paging_filter–pCall it the lament of the poet laureate: having people come up to you and confess, “Poetry makes me feel dumb.” Elizabeth Austen, Washington’s newly crowned poet laureate (the third ...

which is intended to promote poetry and creative expression across the state and inspire the next generation of writers. The poet laureate will also serve as the governor’s and lieutenant ...

She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. In her first year as poet laureate, she published a collection called Plume, which deals directly with how her Hanford area ...