FREE ENTRY / City of Redmond - Poet Laureate Call 2026

The City of Redmond seeks applications for the position of Redmond Poet Laureate. The purpose of the Redmond Poet Laureate program is to make a significant contribution to the cultural life of the city and reveal new ways of understanding throughout our diverse community.

The Poet Laureate will generate a work plan within the allocated budget each year that includes community engagement opportunities or projects; i.e. public poetry readings, workshops, classes, lectures, text based visual art, composing and pushing original works, public art projects or other literary based performance or activity.