Post #1862961
2026-05-01 12:53 UTC
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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social 2026-05-01 14:31
@rmblaber1956@mastodon.social TY for tagging me. Wow...! "Republican legislator #MichaelLanuto said he had some questions about the new poet laureate. In doing a 'background check', he said he had found in Cohen’s social media 'the antithesis of what I believe this board stands for'. He cited social media posts about Zohran Mamdani (for) and Donald Trump (against). "In an 3 April letter first reported by the local outlet the Overlook, the legislature informed Create that it was rescinding Cohen’s appointment after finding 'reasonably true' allegations that she had promoted 'violence on social media'. On 15 April the legislature voted unanimously to strip Cohen of her status as poet laureate. "When Yoon called her to share the legislature’s concerns, Cohen was baffled. A self-described pacifist and beloved writing teacher with many friends in Greene county, she hadn’t intended to promote violence. She found and deleted the posts about the president. The timing surprised her – why now, after they’d sent a contract and planned an event?"
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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social 2026-05-01 14:32
@rmblaber1956@mastodon.social Such a violent person...NOT! "She spent her first years in New York City writing a comic novel about Israelis and Palestinians in Nazareth and working a series of jobs, including as an assistant, or 'girl Friday', as she put it, for Bob Marley’s manager. Eventually she became the executive director of the Bread & Roses Cultural Project at Local 1199, a health and human services union"