RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Mayor Danny Avula announced Maurice “Moeflowz” Brown and Rosa Castellano as Richmond’s next poet laureates.
On Saturday, April 11, Avula announced in a press release that Brown and Castellano will be the next poet laureates in the city of Richmond. They will be the third, following Joanna Lee and Douglas Powell/Roscoe Burnems.
“My Mayoral Action Plan focuses on being ‘a city that tells its stories and tells the truth about its past,’” Avula said. “Storytelling is how we understand healing in this city and how we imagine new futures together. It’s the foundation of what drives our administration: the work of bringing communities together and doing the collective healing work our city and our society so deeply need. And the Poet Laureate program is vital to that work.”…