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06 Kim Stafford
As Oregon Poet Laureate, Kim had the privilege of waking early to write
for people in solitary places, the immigrant mom who “stepped into her dream,”
the prisoner whose pain rose and filled a poem where the story got set down and
pounded into gold, and all Kim’s relations “so they may be strengthened.”
