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Google celebrates poet Meena Alexander with a Doodle UPI.com

Google celebrates poet Meena Alexander with a Doodle UPIcom
In honor of the first day of U.S. Asian Pacific Month, Google is honoring Indian-American poet Meena Alexander with a Doodle.

May 1 (UPI) -- In honor of the first day of U.S. Asian Pacific Month, Google is honoring Indian-American poet Meena Alexander with a Doodle. The writer is known for her books of poetry, Napally Road, Illiterate Heart and Raw Silk.

Alexander was born in 1951 in Allahabad, India, and spent her youth in Sudan. Her father was a visiting meteorologist and while he was stationed there, Alexander began writing poems in English and French.

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