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The city of Houston is looking for a local poet, writer or spoken-word artist to serve as its fifth poet laureate in a two-year term that includes a $20,000 honorarium.
Houston’s Fourth Poet Laureate Leslie Contreras Schwartz, reading at a reception for Hispanic Heritage Month at The Rice Hotel in 2019
Houston s next poet laureate will serve from April 2021 to April 2023, and duties include developing a community outreach project that engages nontraditional or otherwise underserved audiences, creating written works, conducting public poetry workshops and mentoring the Houston Youth Poet Laureate, while adhering to COVID-19 safety precautions.