Apply Now to Become Our 2024–2025 Bayfield Poet Laureate!

The Library encourages poets 18 and over, living within 10 miles of the City of Bayfield, to apply. Preference is given to year-round Bayfield area residents, including Red Cliff and the Towns of Russell and Bayfield. Summer residents are eligible. We are looking for poets who have shown or demonstrated a passion for poetry, including but not limited to publication in a book, journal or anthology—on paper or online. Live events are included. We are looking for poets prepared to bring their poems and projects to life in our community. We hope to engage the community, students and local writers in our Poet Laureate’s poems, events and projects.
Applications are due December 15, 2023. Click Read More for details and to download/print the application!

Poet LaureateBayfield Carnegie LibraryNovember 1, 2023

Creative Community Champion Award goes to Lucy Tyrrell

In 2021, the honorees were Wisconsin's municipal Poets Laureate and Writers-in-Residence. As Bayfield Poet Laureate 2020–2021, Lucy Tyrrell was one of the eleven recipients. Be sure to click Read More.

Awards & Grants, Poet LaureateLibrary DirectorApril 8, 2022

Meet Our New Poet Laureate, Dee Sweet!

Bayfield, Wisconsin’s new Poet Laureate, Denise Sweet, a resident of Bayfield, also served as the second Poet Laureate for the state of Wisconsin from 2004-2008. To learn more about Dee read more.

Poet LaureateLibrary DirectorJanuary 13, 2022

Video Recording: Ariel Anthology 2021 Poetry Reading

A Poetry Reading via Zoom on December 2, 2021, celebrating the Ariel Anthology 2021: Water. The evening event featured Carolyn Gouge singing a water song and speaking on behalf of water and the contributors to the 2021 Ariel Anthology reading their poems about water. Hosted by Lucy Tyrrell, Bayfield Poet Laureate 2020–2021.

Poet Laureate, Poetry ReadingBayfield Carnegie LibraryDecember 15, 2021

Poet Laureate Application for 2022-2023

We are now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 Bayfield Poet Laureate. Deadline November 30, 2021. Print the application for details.

Poet LaureateLibrary DirectorOctober 21, 2021

Bayfield Poetry Trail

A new project in Bayfield allows residents and visitors to tour the city reading poems at local businesses both to enjoy the verses and win a local prize. It’s called the Bayfield Poetry Trail, and it runs through September 12, offering a chance to read and enjoy poems posted in the windows or glass doors of businesses that agreed to be stops on the trail. It’s another project thought up by Lucy Tyrrell, Bayfield’s poet laureate, and is being carried out with the help of the Bayfield Chamber of Commerce and 22 local businesses.

Poet Laureate, Poetry ReadingBayfield Carnegie LibraryAugust 14, 2021

Call for Artists and Poets

Attention Local Artist and Poets! See the above flyer for a great opportunity! The Bayfield Carnegie Library was a recipient of this grant, funding two projects, organized by our new Poet Laureate, Lucy Tyrrell.

Poet Laureate, Special EventsBayfield Carnegie LibraryMarch 10, 2020

Lucy Tyrrell, Bayfield Poet Laureate 2020–2021

Bayfield is proud to have Lucy Tyrrell as our 2020–2021 Poet Laureate. Here are five poems, one written during each year Lucy Tyrrell has lived in Bayfield—plus the "Votes for Women" poem "commissioned" in 2020.

Poet LaureateBayfield Carnegie LibraryJanuary 11, 2020