City of Redmond
2026 City of Redmond Poet Laureate Call
- Deadline:
- Budget: $5000.00
The City of Redmond seeks applications for the position of Redmond Poet Laureate. The purpose of the Redmond Poet Laureate program is to make a significant contribution to the cultural life of the city and reveal new ways of understanding throughout our diverse community.
The Poet Laureate will generate a work plan within the allocated budget each year that includes community engagement opportunities or projects; i.e. public poetry readings, workshops, classes, lectures, text based visual art, composing and pushing original works, public art projects or other literary based performance or activity.
The selection process shall occur in four phases. In the first phase, a Review Panel comprised of poets, city staff, and Redmond Arts & Culture Commissioners will review all applicants, selecting up to three candidates to move into Panel Interviews. In the second phase, the short-listed candidates will have just under two weeks and be paid a $250 stipend to create a draft workplan and prepare a poem to read during the Panel Interviews. One finalist will be selected to be interviewed by the Mayor and then City Council.
Finalists will be selected through a panel process that will evaluate the applicants based on the below criteria:
• Quality and strength of past work
• Prior experience in program and/or project planning and development
• Prior experience with community engagement or outreach
• Demonstrated understanding of Redmond’s community
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