Call for Applications for Youth Poet Laureate
Mentored by the town’s Poet Laureate, the Youth Poet Laureate will celebrate the community through the reading of original poems at community occasions such as Westwood Day, government holidays and at library and school poetry programs, including the town-wide poetry reading for National Poetry Month, and the Westwood High School poetry slam. Poems by the Youth Poet Laureate will be posted on the town library’s website, and in posters in the main library and the Islington Branch Library. The Youth Poet Laureate may also represent the town of Westwood at literary events outside the town and at Youth Poet Laureate competitions in New England and nationally.
The term for the first Youth Poet Laureate will begin in June 2025 and run through May of 2026.
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