Freshman Named City of Dallas Youth Poet Laureate

She will work with the Dallas Poet Laureate to encourage youth poetry. A 9th grade student at The Hockaday School, Randhar participates in debate and Model UN, she runs track, and she volunteers as a tutor at Joe May Elementary every week. A voracious reader and writer, Randhar wrote and self-published a fantasy novel when she was twelve. 

Dallas Public Library, the Office of Arts & Culture and Deep Vellum launched the Dallas poet laureate program in June 2021 to recognize exemplary poetry and the poet’s role in sharing poetry with the greater community. The program is funded by the Friends of Dallas Public Library, Inc, the Joe M. and Doris R. Dealey Family Foundation, Office of Arts & Culture and Deep Vellum.