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The Academy of American Poets names its first Latino head

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado will become the almost-90-year-old academy's executive director and president.
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado will become the Academy of American Poets' first Latino executive director and president since its founding in 1934.

For the first time, the Academy of American Poets will be lead by a Latino: Ricardo Alberto Maldonado. Maldonado, currently the co-director of the 92NY's Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City, will

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