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Ashland University: MFA faculty member named poet laureate for her hometown

March 28, 2024

Tess Taylor, a member of the Ashland University MFA program’s Poetry faculty, will start her one-year term as El Cerrito poet laureate on April 1. She will be helping to build El Cerrito High School’s literary magazine.

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