My City January 2022

7 Questions with … Kiara May

Soon after she was appointed Flint Downtown Authority Executive Director, MCM shared a quick Q&A about her background and her goals for the DDA.

Semaj Brown, Flint’s Poet Laureate

MCM talked with Flint’s rst poet laureate, named in September 2019 by then-mayor Karen Weaver. Brown is a poet, educator, playwright, author, performer and thought leader who received the 2021 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fel- lowship Award, which was given to 23 poet laureates across the country. e recipients received $50,000 to help them grow public poetry programs in their communities. “It is really an honor,” Brown says of the award. e monetary gift will be used to continue her civic focus, the Poetry Pod. 

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