Community Quote by Amanda Gorman

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I…

— Rita Dove

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

— Winona LaDuke

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

— Anne Waldman

I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

— Natasha Trethewey

I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor,…

— Denise Duhamel

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

— Paula Broadwell

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest…

— Rita Dove

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

— Rita Dove

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

— Patti Smith

I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

— Christina Aguilera

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist -…

— Neil Gaiman