This story has been updated. Another image has been added. For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did not exist.

“This time, these organizations have invited him again—now as a Nobel laureate.” James Robinson, winner of the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (L), Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) ...

Julie Kane, who was the Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2011-2013 and is professor emerita of English at Northwestern State University was named the 2025 winner of the LWA. LCB said Kane was born in ...