Film, Video National Youth Poet Laureate Celebration
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- National Youth Poet Laureate Celebration
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- 2017 National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and the 2018 National Youth Poet Laureate finalists participated in a reading and moderated discussion with Michael Cirelli, executive director of Urban Word NYC. Jacqueline Woodson, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, gave opening remarks. This event is free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with Urban Word.
- Event Date
- March 15, 2018
- Related Resources
- Poetry & Literature at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/poetry/
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- 1 hours 18 minutes 47 seconds
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