Clark County’s new poet laureate seeks wisdom Poetry ambassador hopes to inspire writing by elders, people of color By Scott Hewitt, Columbian Arts & Features Reporter, and The Columbian Share: 4 Photos Clark County poet laureate Armin Tolentino used to go fishing on the East Coast with his father. These days he pursues the hobby at Vancouver Lake. He's working on a series of new poems about fishing now, he said. (Photos by Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery When Armin Tolentino and a couple of friends bicycled all the way across the United States in 2007, it was boring in the best possible way, he said.