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Recent media coverage and interviews about the U. P. Poet Laureate Foundation and the U.P. Poet Laureate.

NEWS ABOUT 2023-4 U.P. POET LAUREATE

Poet Laureate Celebrates National Haiku Day

Upper Michigan Today celebrates National Haiku Poetry Day with the Poet Laureate of the UP

Marquette Monthly – April 2023

Marquette Monthly April 2023

THE NEWS EXAMINER 03/30/2023



PWPL would like to congratulate Beverly Matherne as the newly selected Upper Peninsula Poet Laureate Foundation 2023-2024 U.P. Poet Laureate! 

Beverly Matherne will be performing a Live Poetry Reading at the Great Lakes Poetry Festival on April 26 from 7 – 8 pm in the Community Room. 

Read some of her several books or poetry at PWPL today!



An interview with Beverly Matherne and Martin Achatz by Kurt Hauswirth on WNMU-FM


The Daily Mining Gazette 3/24/23


Upper Peninsula Woman named 2023-24 Poet Laureate The Mining Journal 3/23/23


Northern Today English Professor Emerita Named U.P. Poet Laureate


TV 6 Interview with Martin Achatz and Beverly Matherne 3/21/23


Library Words with Nerds Podcast – Martin Achatz, 2-time former U. P. Poet Laureate and V.P. of the U.P. Poet Laureate Foundation discusses foundation news with Janeen Rastall.

More News

Martin Achatz, Foundation Vice-President is interviewed by WLUC about the Giving Poetry project on Nov. 27, 2022.

Kurt Hauswirth with WNMU-FM interviews Martin Achatz, V.P. of the U.P. Poet Laureate Foundation about the application process for the 2023 U.P. Poet Laureate on the Northern Arts & Culture show.