Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Inauguration

The Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project is pleased to announce that Janice Gould has been selected as the 2014-2016 Pikes Peak Poet Laureate. 

An accomplished poet and educator, Ms. Gould is an associate professor in Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where she developed and directs the concentration in Native American Studies. “I'm honored, very pleased, and looking forward to becoming the next ambassador for poetry in our community,” said Ms. Gould. She will succeed Price Strobridge, who served as Pikes Peak Poet Laureate from 2012-2014.

A reception to inaugurate Ms. Gould will take place on Sunday, April 27, at 2:00PM, in the Carnegie Room of Penrose Library at 20 N. Cascade Avenue in downtown Colorado Springs. The reception is free and open to the public.