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Amiri Baraka New Jersey Assembly Votes to Cut Embattled Poet's Job

Ytzhak | 09.07.2003 04:08 | Anti-racism | Culture | Free Spaces | World

The New Jersey General Assembly approved a measure today to eliminate the post of state poet laureate. The legislation would effectively remove the poet, Amiri Baraka, who had caused a furor with his poem referring to the 9/11 attacks.

New Jersey Assembly Votes to Cut Embattled Poet's Job
By LAURA MANSNERUS



RENTON, July 1

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