Yoonsoo Nam currently serves as Lewisville’s Poet Laureate. In this role, she is responsible for creating original poetry to commemorate special occasions and participating in the planning of poetry-based educational programs in the community.

Nam is the director of Stream Art located in Flower Mound. She is an artist and a poet who paints the spiritual reality with unique colors and writes beautiful poems that carry deep meanings and symbols. She uses metaphorical expressions of simple dots, lines, and textures to release love, peace and hope to the world. Her inspirational paintings and poems have been impacting many people in various countries.

Nam was born in Seoul, South Korea, graduated from Ewha Womans University with Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts, and graduated from Seoul Jangsin University with a Master of Divinity. She will be the featured artist in a solo gallery show at the Lewisville Grand Theater’s Art Gallery in August 2021.

Nam’s first term runs from March 2021 through March 2023. She succeeded J. Paul Holcomb who served as Lewisville’s first Poet Laureate from 2014 until his death in December 2019.

The City of Lewisville is proud to have a Poet Laureate program that contributes to the arts through poetry in addition to the performance and visual arts programs the City offers. Through this program several poems are commissioned by the City each year, usually in celebration of something special such as the anniversary or "Birthday" of the City (celebrated in January), dedication of a new piece of public art, or dedication of a new building, but works could also be for another special request or idea of a poem suggested by the Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate also will help staff in planning and executing special educational programs such as live poetry readings or other efforts.

Learn more about Lewisville's former Poet Laureate, J. Paul Holcomb.

For more information on the Poet Laureate program program contact Denise Helbing, Arts Center Manager, Lewisville Grand Theater.

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