Northern Michigan University professor Russell Thorburn has been elected poet laureate of the Upper Peninsula, although somewhat unofficially.
Excerpt: In the entire history of Michigan, there has been only one state poet laureate: Edgar Guest.
But, the Upper Peninsula can boast of having a poet laureate.
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Source: Michigan Radio
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