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Galena poet laureate will commission the community to write
A small Illinois city has appointed its first poet laureate. He plans to use poetry to bring the community together. This February the City of Galena set out to find its first poet laureate. The task was completed a couple of months later. Larissa Distler is the adult service librarian at the Galena Public Library. She said the library wants the poet to engage the community.
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