In this PBS NewsHour interview, Fred de Sam Lazaro speaks with Daniel Umemezie, who has been named the tenth National Youth Poet Laureate, about how he aims to use his work to inspire social change. Umemezie is featured in a Q&A by Rigoberto González in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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