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Rena Priest has loved poetry since she was a child, listening to Dr. Seuss books being read aloud. “It was just such a pleasure and a joy to hear language, and the rhymes,” she said, remembering how her mother’s renditions of books like “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” were “like magic coming out of her mouth.”

(Poet Laureate Rena Priest is a Western alumna.)