Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee names Mario Willis next poet laureate
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — Milwaukee has named a brand new poet laureate and he is excited to get to work.
Mario Willis is a Milwaukee native and has been featured all through the town as a performer and writing information. For greater than 16 years, Willis has collaborated with nationally acknowledged spoken phrase artists and award-winning poets.
For the following two years, Willis will make visitor appearances and promote poetry in the neighborhood for the Milwaukee Public Library.
“What I particularly love about poetry is it permits me to be descriptive in a method the place I might paint these photos with phrases that get transferred into peoples’ minds,” Willis mentioned.
The appointment shall be made official at an occasion in June. The precise date and time shall be introduced quickly.
For now, you possibly can catch his work at “Poet’s Monday” Linneman’s Riverwest Inn each week.