News at Eleven: Today marks the official launch of [Kay] Ryan's

project "Poetry for the Mind's Joy," an initiative through which she hopes to draw national attention to community colleges, as well as drawing the colleges' attention to poetry. She plans to do so in a variety of ways: for starters, by reading her poetry at community colleges across the country--and this she has already begun, with a reading at the College of San Mateo, in California, last month.

from Inside Higher Ed: Poetry for Community Colleges
also PBS: Newshour: Poet Laureate Kay Ryan Pushes Verse for Community Colleges

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