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Melissa Tuckey, BEI Emeritus Fellow and editor of APJ’s Roots + Resistance issue, has been selected as Poet Laureate of Tompkins County! She was nominated by Phebe Allen Gustafson. She will be kicking things off with a reading at the Tompkins County Legislature on January 15th at 5:30!