Miriam Akervall, Moscow Poet Laureate 2025-2027
Miriam Akervall 
2025-2027 Moscow Poet Laureate

(Photo by Sha Luo)

October 24, 2025  (Moscow, Idaho) — The City of Moscow and the Moscow Arts Commission announce the selection of Miriam Akervall as the 2025 – 2027 Moscow Poet Laureate. Akervall is a poet and translator. Their poetry appears in Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Their translation of Astrakanerna (The Garden of the Dead) by Marie Lundquist won an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Nadia Christensen Translation Prize and is forthcoming with Ugly Duckling Presse. Akervall’s writing has received support from the Vermont Studio Center and the American Literary Translators Association. They live in Moscow, Idaho. Akervall is the 4th Moscow Poet Laureate and will serve through the end of September 2027. Their selection by the Moscow Arts Commission followed a June 2 – August 1, 2025 call for submissions from published poets residing in Moscow. The Moscow Poet Laureate works with the Moscow Arts Commission and Moscow Arts Department staff to determine a slate of readings and other events for the year. Please watch for announcements regarding their upcoming appearances by signing up for the mailing list: https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/606/Arts-Connections-Opportunities

Support for City of Moscow Arts Department programming comes from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

About the Moscow Poet Laureate ProgramThe Moscow Poet Laureate Program increases awareness of the role that poetry and literature play in the community and creates a record of Moscow’s distinctive character. Not only does the program support the work of excellent poets in the city, but it also invests the public spaces of the city with the beauty of language. Along with offering readings and workshops, the Poet Laureate writes poems for the City that are reflective of local landscapes, social situations, or important events.The Moscow Poet Laureate Program began in 2015, inspired by the vision of the Moscow Arts Commission and University of Idaho English Professor Alexandra Teague. Since that time, the following poets have offered their literary expertise to this City of Moscow Arts Department program: Tiffany Midge (2015-2018), Susan Hodgin (2018-2021), and Stacy Boe Miller (2021-2024).