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Poet Laureate Regie Gibson

Sworn in by Governor Maura Healey on May 30, 2025, Regie Gibson is Massachusetts's first Poet Laureate.

As Poet Laureate, Regie Gibson will encourage the appreciation of poetry and creative expression across Massachusetts, organizing and attending public readings and other statewide literary and cultural events in different regions, composing poetry for ceremonial occasions, and advising the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on an outreach program for schools focused on the celebration and advancement of poetry. 

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“Any path this nation takes is because we helped choose it!
Any tyranny that triumphs in this nation is because we helped excuse it!
Any freedoms this nation loses is because we helped lose it!
And, it is not in our nature to suffer such things –

But to put them up, buckle up, muster up, instead
Then, toss back our heads – fill our lungs with air
And sing – sing – Massachusetts sing! ”

— Regie Gibson Excerpt from "Massachusetts: A Song of Itself"

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