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Arts E-News – June 2020

This month’s features: Delaware Poets Laureate Awarded 2020 AAP Fellowship, National Poetry Month, 2020 Writers’ Retreat,  Award Winners XX, and On the Mezzanine: Theresa “Terre” Walton

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Poetry

Delaware Poets Laureate “We see the ills in our community, the things that are going wrong,” says Albert Mills. “And we feel that art truly is our way to help address some of these things. Given the appointment, I think we’ll be able to put poetry and art in places and conversations where it hasn’t been in the […]

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About the Program

History 1947 Delaware General Assembly passes a resolution authorizing an annual appointment by the Governor of a Poet Laureate for the State of Delaware. No specific duties were assigned to the position at that time. 1964 An act to create the honorary office of Poet Laureate for the State of Delaware was passed by the […]

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