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"self portrait of the artist as a loveletter to YEG" written and performed by Nisha Patel, Poet Laureate of the City of Edmonton.

celebrating International Women's Day 2021, on behalf of the Alberta School of Business

Written for the 2020 graduating class of Bow Valley College, this poem is dedicated to the journey taken by students to get here through challenge and success, and to step toward what's next.