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From: The Gazette
Date: 20080120
Author:BILL REED

If, as Percy Bysshe Shelley opined, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world," then Colorado Springs is about to get its first official representative to the congress of ideas.

The first Pikes Peak Poet Laureate will be named in April, during National Poetry Month.

"We need our version of Neil Armstrong, someone who will be engaging and inspiring, and lead programs that will draw people in," said John Atkinson, chair of the organizing committee. "The idea is to make poetry accessible to every person."

A coalition of local groups came together to establish the poet laureate ...

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