Huddled masses? Losers!

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> Date: August 11, 2017 at 11:01:10 AM EDT
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> Subject: Huddled masses? Losers!
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> Hello
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> What sort of poem would President Trump like to see at the base of the Statue of Liberty? That is the question the 
> Guardian posed to 21 American poets after a furor erupted over the celebrated Emma Lazarus poem engraved at the 
> statue pedestal. 
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> Last week, President Trump threw his support behind a “merit”-based immigration policy that would would drastically 
> curb legal immigration to America. The proposal triggered a spat at a White House press briefing when CNN’s Jim 
> Acosta asked Trump adviser Stephen Miller if the plan violated the spirit of the Lazarus poem, The New Colossus, that 
> includes the celebrated welcoming lines: “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe 
> free.” 
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> On the heels of the incident, the Guardian asked a group of American poets – from the Pulitzer prize winner Rita Dove 
> to the Inuit poet Joan Naviyuk Kane – to imagine in writing what Trump would like to put on the Statue. We also gave 
> the poets the option to write a contemporary take on the Lazarus poem. You can read the extraordinary collection of 
> work they produced on a short deadline here. 
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> We’d also like to invite our members and readers to join the Guardian’s Lady Liberty poetry challenge. We’ll publish 
> a selection of our favorite reader-submitted poems. You can read more about how to enter here. 
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> Thank you again for your support. 
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> Jane Spencer
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> Guardian US      
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