Yonkers Insider: City of Yonkers: ***NEWS RELEASE***: CITY OF YONKERS APPOINTS GOLDA SOLOMON AS CITY'S FIRST POET LAUREATE.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CITY OF YONKERS APPOINTS GOLDA SOLOMON AS CITY'S FIRST POET LAUREATE.

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano swears in Golda Solomon as Yonkers’ first Poet Laureate at Yonkers City Hall.

(Photo Credit: Maurice Mercado/City of Yonkers)

 

 

YONKERS, NY – February 16, 2022 – Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano today announced the appointment of Golda Solomon as the City of Yonkers’ first Poet Laureate. The Yonkers Poet Laureate is an unpaid position aimed at encouraging the community to engage with poetry by creating and leading activities that inspire writing and poetry performances.

 

A Yonkers resident, Golda Solomon has spent the last four decades ministering to, teaching, sharing, and advancing the joy and pleasures of poetry to children as young as 5 and adults as old as 85. Solomon has taken time to perfect her craft by writing poems about Yonkers events/milestones and continues to serve as an advisor and mentor to aspiring young writers and musicians in the City of Yonkers.

 

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