Poetry Lives Here
By Nicole Tong, Fairfax County Poet Laureate 2020-2022
"Poetry Lives Here" amplified the voices of living poets. Created by the inaugural Fairfax County Poet Laureate, Nicole Tong, the project invited community members to celebrate the works of living poets through the sharing and reading of their work.
About Poetry Lives Here
As the inaugural Fairfax County Poet Laureate, Nicole Tong created Poetry Lives Here to enliven local interest in contemporary poetry. Through this initiative, she:
These efforts have raised community awareness of living American poets and how they reflect the diversity of voices and cultures in this nation.
Fairfax County Poet Laureate 2020-2022
Nicole Tong
“Being named the inaugural Fairfax Poet Laureate offers me an extraordinary opportunity to share poetry, which I love, write and teach, with my community”. “At the end of my tenure, I will have done my work if county residents understand that poetry and poets are alive in the here and now; they are not just documented in canonical books. I look forward to sharing my work and the voices of other living poets, which reflect the diverse lived experiences of all of us.” – Nicole Tong
About Nicole Tong
Nicole Tong is an award-winning poet and professor of English at Northern Virginia College. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and George Mason University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts.
In 2016, Tong served as an inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Pope-Leighey House, a Frank Lloyd Wright property. Her writing has appeared in American Book Review, CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Cortland Review, Yalobusha Review, and more.
Her first poetry collection, How to Prove a Theory, was selected as the 2017 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize winner by the Washington Writers’ Publishing House.
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