Analinm appoints its first pool laureate

Anaheim is known among other things, for its sports and entertainment, but now city officials want to add the spoken word to that list The city recently appointed its first poet, laureate to coincide with National Poetry Month West Anaheim resident and ward-winning poet and writer Grant Hier will be tasked with raising the consciousness of reading and writing poetry through at least two free public workshops, two public readings and two community events liter regularly attends poetry readings in the city most recentIy at an Anaheim library event this month that drew 60 guests of all ages who read and recited poema, he said. "This is stuff that I have already been doing, and this is, to me a platform to do it on a broader scale." Hier said of the two-year, u n paid honorary posit"Reading and writing poetry gives you other perspectives and helps us demand and see our connected neta. A poet laureate is the official poet appointed by a government! or institution and is typicaliy expected to write poems for special events throughout their term Cities such as Los Angeles and Laguna Beach also have them, Robert Frost was once appointed as the US poet laureate.