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Current State's Public Poetry Announcements are brought to you by the Center for Poetry at MSU's Residential College in the Arts and Humanities.

Public Poetry Announcement: Lin Yutang

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May is Older Americans Month and we’ve been featuring the voices of some of Michigan’s senior citizens. Today, we get some wisdom on aging in the form of poetry.

 
Here is Lansing poet Ruelaine Stokes reading an unnamed poem by the Chinese writer Lin Yutang. 
 
Current State's Public Poetry Announcements are produced in collaboration with the Center for Poetry at Michigan State University. 
 

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