Hank Stewart To Be Named Atlanta Poet Laureate

On Monday, a collection of Atlanta dignitaries including Congressman Hank Johnson and former news anchor Monica Pearson will gather to name Hank Stewart as the city’s poet laureate. Stewart has been a writer and spoken word poet for 25 years, as well as a public speaker and foundation president.

Stewart calls his spoken word “conscious poetry,” and says that it is a message to people who “don’t always have a chance to listen to long sermons,” and notes his work teaching creative writing to high school youth and the incarcerated.