Valerie Macon Archives

2015 WinnersGreg Lowenhagen and Cicely MitchellEmil KangKym RegisterDasan AhanuChris Tonelli Previous winners North Carolina has retained a poet laureate for nearly seven decades. In that time, however, North Carolina has never had an African-American poet laureate. Dasan Ahanu can barely imagine a scenario where that might happen. “There is a whole group of faith-based and […]

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Indies Arts Awards: Durham poet Dasan Ahanu uses hip-hop education and action to inspire more work

Gov. McCrory gets it right the second time around, names new N.C. Poet Laureate after controversy

How McCrory used Valerie Macon to attack ‘cultural elites’

Update: Valerie Macon resigns from Poet Laureate appointment after uproar

Opinion: McCrory’s mean joke, a poet laureate who’s barely a poet

Poetic justice

An Evening-Length Series of Meditations Illuminates the Music of Phillip Glass

Magic Tuber Stringband Makes Old-Time Music for Postmodern People

Learning Along With Adventurous Raleigh Sommelier Doreen Colondres

Republicans Won a Majority on the NC Supreme Court, Now GOP Legislators Can Gerrymander a Decade of Elections

The FOILIES 2023: Recognizing the Worst in Government Transparency

Durham Public Schools’ New Absence Policy Outrages High-Achieving Students