Poet Cecelia Hagen at a reading in Salem in 2008. Photo courtesy of the poet. Oregon’s first poet laureate, Edwin Markham, who served from 1923 to 1931, was internationally known for his 1899 poem
an ode to the miseries of the common laborer. In it, Markham writes of the system that oppresses...
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"The Man With the Hoe,"