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Profile: "Steer has been writing poems. He said he got the idea after hearing about someone else doing it on CBC's Fresh Air program."
(CBC)
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/bill-steer-daily-haiku-1.6315711

Report: "The family's poems... were recited in the traditional style at the reading ceremony."
(Kyodo News)
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https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/01/58c37a588b84-japans-emperor-hopes-for-end-of-coronavirus-pandemic-in-poem-ceremony.html

Essay: "Though some scholars think of Harlem Renaissance poets’ work as contradictory to the tenets of Modernism and to the work of the major white poets of the time, McKay is proof that this is quite misread."
(Lithub)
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https://lithub.com/jericho-brown-on-claude-mckays-subversive-foundational-poems-of-love-and-protest/?fbclid=IwAR0JOCmqxLp31p3OASQVsE_NX9wgDLyWFskoBgfCLaXy8lufiiyLaDx3mJs

Interview: "I don’t view my work as a way of achieving catharsis: I see it as an art... the poem itself heals nothing."
(The Daily Utah Chronicle)
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https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2022/01/15/professor-poet-laureate-paisley-rekdal-personal-narrative-poetry/

Announcement: "A rare first edition of William Shakespeare's Comedies Histories and Tragedies, a volume containing 36 of Shakespeare’s 38 known plays is now in the collections of the University of British Columbia Library."
(Smithsonian)
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shakespeare-first-folio-acquired-by-the-university-of-british-columbia-180979393/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220114-daily-responsive&spMailingID=46250288&spUserID=OTAyNTEyNTc4ODI4S0&spJobID=2161598237&spReportId=MjE2MTU5ODIzNwS2

Report: "In Texas, Tracey Ramirez ordered food via UberEats — but was pleasantly surprised with... a handwritten note and poem."
(New York Post)
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https://nypost.com/2022/01/11/woman-shocked-by-uber-eats-drivers-surprise-gift-and-poem/

Report: "Maya Angelou was the first Black woman to write and perform a poem at a presidential inauguration. She is now the first Black woman to be featured on a quarter."
(NPR)
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https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1072019307/poet-maya-angelou-is-the-first-black-woman-to-be-featured-on-a-u-s-quarter

Announcement: "A mix of memoir and conjecture, the collection, Taylor’s fourth, reveals the underground communities forged by women where they could reclaim their bodies as their own."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/10/joelle-taylor-wins-ts-eliot-poetry-prize-for-blazing-cnto-othered-poems

Report: "Jailed Iranian poet and documentary filmmaker Baktash Abtin has died in detention in a hospital after falling ill with Covid-19..."
(CNN)
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https://www.cnn.com/style/article/baktash-abtin-death-intl/index.html

Profile: "Hernández assigned the 30 students in his 'Latinx Leadership' class to walk their Northside neighborhood, photograph what spoke to them and write a poem to accompany their favorite picture."
(Denver Post)
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https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/19/denver-northside-our-sacred-community-book/