A rubric is provided to a panel of judges which, this year, included first-ever Bronx poet laureate and native Bronxite Haydil Henriquez.

Source: https://www.bxtimes.com/young-bronx-poets-joes-pub/

Before being jailed, Mohammadi was vice president of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran, founded by Nobel laureate Ebadi.

Source: https://www.startribune.com/jailed-iranian-activist-narges-mohammadi-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize-for-fighting-womens-oppression/600310225/

“Belfast has a long and vivid history as a center of poetry in Maine,” Moore told the council, “with its poet laureate and its annual poetry festival each October, and also with its many readings, events and workshops.”

Source: https://waldo.villagesoup.com/2023/03/03/belfast-seeks-a-bard/

Betjeman’s name first came up for consideration in 1968 following the death of the then laureate, John Masefield, at the age of 88.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/no-10-john-betjeman-philip-larkin-laureate-job-b2377819.html

Dr. Madeline Yvonne Tham, U Soso Tham’s great-grandniece, supported the idea of erecting a museum in honour of the poet laureate.

Source: https://theshillongtimes.com/2023/12/19/govt-mulls-museum-to-honour-preserve-soso-thams-literary-accomplishments/

Even when the Nobel laureate and prominent monetarist renounced this theory in 2000, central banks continued to follow the creed he abandoned.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/the-guardian-view-on-excessive-unemployment-the-creation-of-unnecessary-suffering

FILE PHOTO: Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences Ben S. Bernanke speaks during the Nobel Prize Banquet at the Town Hall in Stockholm, Sweden December 10, 2022.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/ex-fed-chief-bernanke-says-labor-costs-becoming-more-prominent-in-inflation/article_5d2014c9-34c8-5055-993a-f958cacdfb94.html

Fosse has cited the bleak, enigmatic work of Irish writer Samuel Beckett -- the 1969 Nobel literature laureate -- as an influence on his minimalist style.

Source: https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20231005/jon-fosse-a-norwegian-master-of-spare-nordic-writing-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature

He’s also West Hollywood’s current poet laureate.

Source: https://www.dailybreeze.com/2023/02/14/free-love-poems-offered-at-long-beach-airport-for-valentines-day/

In other art forms, major figures include Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili, “12 Years a Slave” filmmaker Steve McQueen, and writers Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo and Nobel literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-britain-britons-caribbean-charles-iii-b2362100.html

Kenzaburo Oe, 88. The Nobel literature laureate whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan's postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son.

Source: https://abc13.com/who-died-in-2023-celebrities-famous-people-celebrity-deaths/14167785/

Leaving aside the only scientifically relevant question of whether Watson’s assertions were true (he’s just a Nobel laureate DNA expert, what would he know), they were certainly impolite and politically inadvisable.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/05/no_author/how-america-destroyed-its-most-distinguished-living-scientist/

Lynn Kincanon, Loveland’s poet laureate, poses for a photo Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at the Loveland Public Library in downtown Loveland.

Source: https://www.reporterherald.com/2023/12/10/loveland-choral-society-and-local-poets-will-present-programs-sunday/

Maya Williams (ey/em, they/them, and she/her) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley Bryan Fellow and the seventh poet laureate of Portland.

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/05/28/deep-water-in-the-beginning-by-maya-williams/

One of the poets he thinks does that well is Ada Limón, the United States poet laureate who makes a home in Lexington but is from Sonoma, California.

Source: https://www.harlanenterprise.net/2023/05/08/a-conversation-with-silas-house-kentuckys-new-poet-laureate/

On March 7, the United States Postal Service unveiled a new “forever” stamp featuring Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2023/0314/A-well-deserved-celebration-Charting-Toni-Morrison-s-path-to-creativity?icid=rss

She was joined by City Council President Nicole Morell, School Committee Vice Chair Jenny Graham and Medford’s first-ever poet laureate, Terry Carter, who opened the event with a poem.

Source: https://tuftsdaily.com/archives/2023/01/30/mayor-lungo-koehn-delivers-the-2023-state-of-the-city-address/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mayor-lungo-koehn-delivers-the-2023-state-of-the-city-address&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=m

The Nobel laureate physicist and Oppenheimer were quite close, and Rabi testified on Oppenheimer’s behalf at the security hearing in 1954.

Source: https://www.jta.org/2023/07/16/ideas/at-the-heart-of-the-film-oppenheimer-is-a-clash-between-real-life-jews

The Nobel peace laureate apologized after the footage from a public event, which also shows him apparently giving the boy a peck on the lips, went viral, leading to a wave of comments on social media that his behavior amounted to abuse.

Source: https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2023/04/14/248510/dalai-lama-unfairly-labelled-over-tongue-video-tibet-govt-in-exile/

The poet laureate, who, however, could not attend the award ceremony, at the 2022 Boao International Poetry Festival in Shanghai, greets the recognition with mixed feelings.

Source: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/02/13/nigeria-not-reckoned-with-due-to-leadership-failure-osundare/