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Katherine E. Schneider, described as a civically engaged poet, will serve a two-year term to promote creative expression and ...

The Poet Laureate began in 2020 with the position awarded for two years. The first Poet Laureate was Christine Swanberg in 2021. In 2023, Jenna Goldsmith was given the laurel wreath.

On March 22, 1929, the California legislature in a joint resolution names a man who spent his boyhood hunting ducks and geese in Sutter County as California’s second poet laureate.