And you know, that, along with a lot of other experiences, gave me a love for hearing language out loud and the music of language and poetry,” Priest says. And I just thought that was the greatest. “H e would read to us in the library, the voices of the characters. She credits her grandmother, who published a small book of poems and who she was named after, as well as her school librarian, who inspired her with his renditions of books he read aloud. Priest says she discovered poetry at a very young age. She succeeds Claudia Castro Luna and will serve for two years. Jay Inslee and is the state’s first Indigenous poet to serve in this role. Rena Priest officially took the mantle in a ceremony Wednesday evening, hosted at the Lummi Nation, where she is from. Washington has a new state poet laureate.
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