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Writers Resist Trump at the NYPL

by C.S. Muncy

January 16, 2017

Yesterday thousands of writers, artists, and human beings concerned about our president-elect’s disdain for freedom of expression gathered outside the NYPL’s main branch at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street for Writers Resist: #LouderTogether.

Poet laureates Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky read “inaugural works,” and the group later marched to Trump tower. C.S. Muncy was there for the Voice.

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