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Poetry Off the Shelf

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Hilleen Adichrods: Poet Paisley Rechtahl was commissioned to write a poem for the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. She says she had roughly a year to write it, so she started reading and taking trips along the line. The book is not so much about the railroad as about the people who built it, most of whom were Chinese-born migrants," Hilleen writes.

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