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Pailthorp, Bellamy (April 15, 2021). "Meet Rena Priest, Washington's first Indigenous poet laureate". KNKX. Retrieved March 7, 2024.

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Paige, Anna (2023-08-15). "Storyteller Chris La Tray selected as Montana's next poet laureate". Montana Free Press. Retrieved 2024-08-28.

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"Gwen Nell Westerman is the new Minnesota poet laureate". MPR News. September 9, 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-10.

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