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Dear Poet 2022: Kwame Dawes Reads, “Purple”

Posted by Lucinda J. Clark on April 15, 2024

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Congratulations to new Poet Laureate of Jamamica!

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Women's Right to Vote Recognized in Columbia County, Georgia

Poetry Matters Project established a collaborative relationship with Women's National History Project several years ago. Under the leadership of Molly MacGregor the campaign to write women into history has spread across the country. PMP joined as a group looking to recognize women in as many formats as possible. In March 2017 Poetry Matters Project saluted women in McCormick, South Carolina with recognition of woman trailblazer. The program which was well attended and received will take place next year on March 16, 2018. Comm. William D. Morris presents Lucinda Clark with proclamation The anniversary of women gaining the vote with the passage of the ninetieth amendment to the Constitution will be celebrated on August 26th. In keeping with the anniversary, Publisher and Poetry Matters Project Founder, Lucinda Clark made a request of Columbia County Commissioners to proclaim August 26th as Women's Equality Day. The proclamation was

We are one in Sorrow

It is with saddness that we post this tribute to Stephanie L. Luty, daughter of Joan Lacombe, Aiken Poet Laureate. Our thoughts and prayers are with you Joan and Harvey as your mourn Stephanie's passing. From this tribute she will be terribly missed. https://www.ccgfuneralhome. com/obit/stephanie-l.-luty Stephanie L. Luty 1948 ∼ 2018 Stephanie Luty THE POTTED GERANIUM On November 09, 2018 Stephanie Luty succumbed to lymphoma and the Cape community lost a dear friend. Stephanie was born the daughter of Phyllis Lauritsen and Harvey Lacombe and lived her early childhood in Old Town, Maine. The family moved to Connecticut when she was six and she was educated in the East Hampton school district. She went on to Rider University in New Jersey graduating in 1971 with a degree in management and received her MBA from the University of Hartford. She began her career as a human resource officer for the Caldor Company in the state of Connecticut and it was

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