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And Still We Rise!: Amanda Gorman and the People’s Inauguration

Posted on January 21, 2021 by tonipressleysanon

Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate, read her “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Dr. Joseph Biden, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Now 22-years-old, West LA raised Gorman was named Youth Poet … Continue reading →

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Heartbreaking: Poet Kofi Awoonor murdered in Nairobi Mall Attack

Posted on September 22, 2013 by tonipressleysanon

Read the Story by Kwame Dawes. One of Kofi Awoonor’s last poems: Across a New Dawn

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