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GA HR1547
Resolution
Status
Passed
3/20/2024
Primary Sponsor
Lisa Campbell
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AI Summary
- Recognizes and celebrates Chelsea Rathburn as the distinguished Poet Laureate of Georgia, a position she has held since her appointment in 2019
- Rathburn is the author of three poetry collections—A Raft of Grief (2013), The Shifting Line (2005), and Still Life with Mother and Knife (2019)—and winner of the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award and a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- In 2021, Rathburn received a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets to create Georgia Poetry in the Parks, poetry trails in partnership with the Georgia Center for the Book and the DeKalb Library Foundation
- Rathburn serves as an associate professor of English-Creative Writing at Mercer University and resides in Young Harris, Georgia
- Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to provide a copy of the resolution to Chelsea Rathburn
Legislative Description
Rathburn, Chelsea; distinguished Poet Laureate of Georgia; commend
Last Action
House Read and Adopted
3/20/2024
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