"If we are silent when anyone’s rights are hurt, then it won’t be long until we are the targets. That means we must continue ...

Chip Williford, the director and co-host of the Riverhead-based Poetry Street, has been named Suffolk County Poet Laureate — the first African American ever named to the post in Suffolk.

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