Paulann Petersen

Paulann Petersen an American poet from the state of Oregon. A native of Portland, she was Oregons sixth poet laureate.

Petersen was born in 1942 in Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from Franklin High School in Southeast Portland. Following high school she went to Pomona College in Claremont, California, before returning to Oregon. Petersen settled in Klamath Falls in Southern Oregon with her family, remaining foryears. In 1991, she returned to Portland where she taught high school English at schools such as West Linn High School.

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