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US names first Native American woman poet laureate

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New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation The US on Wednesday named its first Native American to the role of poet laureate, a woman whose poetry reflects the struggles and stories of Indigenous people in America. The poems of Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, are “carriers of dreams, knowledge and wisdom,” said […]