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Rita Dove
What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly ... Being chosen as our nation’s first African-American poet laureate was a further challenge. I felt called to speak to the importance ...
Jewel Rodgers appointed as first African American Nebraska poet laureate
Gov. Jim Pillen appointed Omaha author and performer Jewel Rodgers as Nebraska's new state poet. Rodgers, 27, is the youngest ...
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Madison's first Black Poet Laureate shares Black History Month poems
Dr. Fabu Phillis Carter is Madison's first African American Poet Laureate. She held that role ... the University of Nairobi in Kenya in African Women's Studies. "I like to say I'm a poet and ...
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Danielle Legros Georges, Boston’s second poet laureate, a beacon in the Haitian writing community, dies at 60
Collins, who has known Ms. Legros Georges for about 30 years, praised the beauty of her language and noted that “in all of her books she’s also giving women a voice.” Ms. Legros Georges was ...