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Lake County poet laureate reads poem about survivor whose assaulter was acquitted; resident shares own abuse account
Summary
Brenda Marie Yeager, Lake County poet laureate, read a poem titled "Kintsugi" at a Lake County Board of Supervisors meeting to mark National Poetry Month and highlight Sexual Assault Awareness Month; a resident recounted abuse experienced as a teenager during public comment.
Brenda Marie Yeager, the poet laureate of Lake County, read a poem titled "Kintsugi" during a Lake County Board of Supervisors meeting to mark National Poetry Month and to draw attention to Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Yeager said she wrote the poem at the request of a friend whose assaulter was acquitted, and she read lines that addressed jurors and the experience of survivors.…
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