Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, California

Year Title
2019 Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, California

 

In 2019, Robin Coste Lewis was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Lewis created and conducted a "Poetic Truths and Reconciliation Commission" for the City of Los Angeles, which was a year-long experiment in redress, a series of programs (readings and conversations) that use the poetry from various Los Angeles histories/communities to engage the process of cultural, political and historical reconciliation.