By Jimy Tallal
FROM: Malibu Times

Ann Buxie has been bringing creative written and spoken words to the Malibu community for more than 25 years through her free Poetry by the Sea and Tales by the Sea programs, so it seemed only fitting that she should be the city’s next poet laureate, serving a two-year term from 2021-23 as Malibu’s “official consultant in poetry.”

“Being named poet laureate has stimulated me to step up and grow into myself,” Buxie said in a phone interview. “I decided it was time to take on the challenge.”

Buxie is looking forward to expanding the city’s new Verse About Town program, which posts poems in glass frames in various public areas around town, including shopping centers and parks.

“We need conversation stimulated today, and to bring poetry into our daily conversations,” she said. “If there’s a poem you can come together and talk about [after seeing it posted in the town], then we’ve achieved our goal.” Read Rest of Article Here