The City of Newark has launched its inaugural Poet Laureate program, Mayor Ras Baraka announced on ... a heartbeat at our center,” said Baraka, whose father Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi ...

Verse and spoken word is in our blood – and I am proud that Newark is adding this Poet Laureate program as a heartbeat at our center,' said Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Newark, New Jersey ...

T he City of Newark is accepting applications for its inaugural Poet Laureate position, Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced. The Poet Laureate will serve a two-year term starting this year with the goal ...