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[LIT] Philadelphia’s been a hotbed for creative poetry for decades now, so much so that the city recognizes a poet laureate honor and has bequeathed it to Raquel Salas Rivera, who brings their work to Rust Belt Books this Wednesday, February 28. Reacting to the after-effects of the hurricane that ravaged their ancestral home in Puerto Rico, Rivera published the following amazing lines in the Poetry Project Newsletter: ” terrorism is some shit white people do when they are having a bad day” and ” fema box contains: one can of beans one packet of cookies one oatmeal bar a small ricebox.”