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VMI Instructor Appointed Poet Laureate by Gov. Youngkin
December 07, 2024
LEXINGTON, Virginia, Dec. 7 -- Virginia Military Institute issued the following news:

Mattie Quesenberry Smith, Ph.D., instructor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute, was recently appointed the commonwealth's new poet laureate by Governor Glenn Youngkin.

A lifelong resident of Virginia, Smith grew up in Appalachia in humble surroundings. Though she went without many modern comforts, her childhood provided a rich . . .

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