Special Event: Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate Finals

Name: Special Event: Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate Finals
Start: 2026-05-09T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Centennial Hall

Schedule

Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Centennial Hall | Milwaukee, WI

Saturday, May 9 | 2 PM CDT | Open to the public
In person at the Centennial Hall of Milwaukee Central Library (733 N. Eighth St.)
Join us as we name Milwaukee’s fourth Youth Poet Laureate! Emceed by Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley, the program will feature performances by our three finalists, along with an appearance and reading by the current Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate, Angela Wang.
Judges for this year’s competition include poet and Founder and Project Manager of In Community Alea McHatten, visual artist and poet and Woodland Pattern Teaching Artist Jackie Valadez, and typewriter poet and Manager for Sociocultural Programming at UW–Milwaukee John Contreras.