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UM Senior Named Northeast U.S. Poet Laureate

Huge congratulations to our own senior, Evan Wang! Evan has been named Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and is now in the running for Youth Poet Laureate of the country. The same honor Amanda Gorman held before reading at President Biden’s inauguration. Evan has recently been accepted to Yale & Columbia, had his works published in Poetry Magazine and Waxwing Journal (among others), and most recently, learned a book of his poetry will be published by Northwestern University! An unbelievable list of accomplishments by this Viking!

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