Channel3000.com | April 2019 | MADISON, Wis. - Leadership is an often misunderstood word. There is, for example, the leadership we are discussing this week, the leadership of elected officials. And then... read more →
Madison.com | December 2018 | By Erik Lorenzsonn | Photo by Michelle Stocker | Michelle Robinson, a research, data and policy associate with the Race to Equity project, said she’s noticed that... read more →
Channel3000.com | December 2018 | By Doug Moe | Madison’s first poet laureate, John Tuschen, was a bit of a contrarian, so in his spirit, allow me a suggestion. Now that Monroe... read more →
Madison Magazine | October 2018 | By Katie Vaughn Art Legacy Designees Legacy designees are leaders who have contributed greatly to the Madison area arts scene through music, visual art, poetry and dance. Beth... read more →
The Cap Times | April 2018 | Madison poet laureate Oscar Mireles is teaming up with the Madison Public Library to bring an unprecedented number of verse-related events to the city this... read more →
Wisconsin State Journal | April 2018 | Poetry will soon come to the sidewalks of Monroe Street. Up to a dozen poems written by Madison’s current and former poets laureate are set... read more →
Madison365 | March 2018 | “I think sometimes when people think of poetry, they think of Beatniks and a little coffeehouse and five or six of their friends … and that’s poetry,”... read more →
The Cap Times | February 2018 | Madison School Board Seat 1 candidates Anna Moffit and Gloria Reyes kicked off campaign season with a forum on arts education, the first of four... read more →
Madison365 | January 2018 | Mayor Paul Soglin has announced that Oscar Mireles has agreed to serve a second term as Poet Laureate for the City of Madison. Mireles is the first... read more →
Madison365.com | January 2018 | By David Dahmer | It’s hard to believe that the Madison Network of Black Professionals (MNBP) will be turning 14 years old later this year. Back in... read more →
City of Madison | January 2018 | Madison - Mayor Paul Soglin announced that Oscar Mireles has agreed to serve a second term as Poet Laureate for the City of... read more →
The Cap Times | December 2017 | This is intended to be my upbeat year-end column, though it begins with some downbeat anecdotes. A front-page story in a recent Sunday New York... read more →
The Cap Times | October 2017 | Oscar Mireles is Madison's poet laureate and the executive director of Omega School. After two years in the poet laureate position and a few years... read more →
Oscar Mireles: I chose to study Sociology in the 1970s at UW-Oshkosh after enrolling in a self-paced "Introduction to Sociology" class taught by Dr. Peter Remender. I was so interested... read more →
by Lupe Salmeron | Madison365.com Guests danced to the sound of Golpe Tierra’s upbeat music during social hour at the first annual “Share the Word” event. Share the Word is... read more →
Madison Public Library | April 2017 | Share the Word is a gathering of Madison-area poets, writers, spoken word performers, hip hop artists, and storytellers that will bring the Madison writing... read more →
by LINDSAY CHRISTIANS | The Capital Times | Jan 16, 2017 | When Araceli Esparza heard a six-year old African-American girl read a poem about her love for Madison, it... read more →
Madison Public Library | 2017 | Three ideas have been picked for participation in the Madison Public Library’s first Library Takeover program. Library Takeover is designed to encourage the community... read more →
by Tony Walter | Madison Magazine | Dec 15, 2016 | Poetry in motion: Oscar Mireles of Omega School is one of 32 mentors and teachers who made the 2016... read more →
by Maggie Ginsberg | Madison Magazine | Nov 14, 2016 | Describe yourself in one sentence Eternally jovial, encouraging nurturer, unrepentant lover of life. What are you currently working on?... read more →
by Joe Vanden Plas | InBusiness | July 2016 | The year’s 15 most influential people in Greater Madison Several members of our 2016 Most Influential class prove that you... read more →
Isthmus | June 2, 2016 | On May 24, Madison’s poet laureate, Oscar Mireles, announced the winners of the Madison Metro Bus Lines Poetry Project. Mireles chose a final 24... read more →
by LISA SPECKHARD | The Capital Times, May 30, 2016 | When Araceli Esparza heard a six-year old African-American girl read a poem about her love for Madison, it made... read more →
by Pamela Cotant | Wisconsin State Journal | April 26, 2016 | Orchard Ridge Elementary School students and parents took part in a yearlong project to give people a voice... read more →
by Henry Sanders | On Milwaukee | Feb 21, 2016 Wisconsin residents of Latino heritage who have accomplished great things in business, education, government, media and the nonprofit sector. Oscar... read more →
Madison365 | February 2016 | The unexpected can often lead to the biggest inspirations. It isn’t every day that you hear about a poet making a change in Wisconsin, so when the... read more →
by Michael Popke | Isthmus | Jan 28, 2016 Educator and author Oscar Mireles assumes the mantle of poet laureate If you see poems etched into the sidewalks along Williamson... read more →
The Madison Arts Commission is pleased to invite you to a reception with Madison’s 6th, and newest, Poet Laureate, Oscar Mireles. Mireles, who officially started his term on Jan. 18,... read more →
by A. David Dahme “I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin: Three Decades of Hispanic Writing” is a new collection of work that brings together the writers, scholars, poets,... read more →
by Bill Novak The new poet laureate for Madison has a decidedly Latino flavor to his work. Oscar Mireles will be the city’s fifth poet laureate, continuing a tradition started... read more →
Omega School's Executive Director, Oscar Mireles, receives the Distinguished Service Award at the 2009 Madison Metropolitan School District Recognition Awards.
Author Oscar Mireles introduces his third book "I Didn't Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin. Historian Adela Cedillo discusses the lack of public safety that Mexicans faced for several decades... read more →