Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Council meeting begins with poetry greeting

Local poet Jessy Lee Saas reads her poem Shoeless
at city council during Monday's meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

Local poet Jessy Lee Saas participates in poetry challenge

By Lisa Goudy

Monday’s city council meeting began with a poetry reading.

Jessy Lee Saas, 16, from Moose Jaw read her poem Shoeless at council following an invitation from the city. The city invited Saas as part of Regina Mayor Michael Fougere’s poetry challenge to have councils across the country to have a poetry reading in a meeting in March or April.

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