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New Worcester Youth Poet Laureate announced

January 3, 2022 by Robert Gill

Congratulations Adael Mejia, the newly named City of Worcester Youth Poet Laureate!

Along with the Worcester Poet Laureate, the Youth Poet Laureate serves as an official ambassador to the City’s historic and vibrant cultures of poetry and literature, both using their positions to promote local writers and the transformative qualities of poetry and the written word.

Mejia, a Burncoat High graduate, will begin his term as Youth Poet Laureate in 2022. Mejia assumes the role after the two-year term of the City and Commonwealth’s first Youth Poet Laureate, Amina Mohammed, came to an end on Dec. 31, 2021. Worcester Poet Laureate Juan Matos, whose own term continues through 2022, will serve as a mentor and guide to Meija.

Read more about Adael in the official City of Worcester press release or in this profile in Worcester Magazine. You can also follow the new youth poet laureate on Facebook.

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