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What a wonderful way to affirm and celebrate the creativity of our communities. Congratulations as well to the winners, most of whom I had the pleasure of hearing read their poetry at the April 15 reading in Middlebury. This event was a perfect culmination to the contest. The casual but classy setting and the deeply personal sharing of the poets could only have been rivaled by the fabulous spring weather we were blessed with that day. This perversion operates much like the abuse of Scripture by slave owners to scare slaves into staying with their masters and convincing them they were slaves because their ancestors had sinned.