Passing the Laurel: Celebrating Lansing's Poet Laureate

7:30 PM, 7 PM doors

Join us as we celebrate the term of 4th Lansing Poet Laureate Ruelaine Stokes, and announce the incoming Lansing Poet Laureate!

The Lansing Poet Laureate program was launched in 2017 by the Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) with support from the Lansing Poetry Club and RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University. In 2023, the program transitioned to the Arts Council of Greater Lansing who administers the program with continued sponsorship from LEAP as a means to promote poetry as an art form, expand access to the literary arts, connect the community to poetry, and to center poetry as a vehicle that contributes to a greater sense of place.