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This Concurrent Resolution formally requests that three key state organizations—the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and the Hawaii State Public Library System—work together to create a Hawaii State Poet Laureate Program. This program would involve appointing a poet laureate for the state, promoting the reading and writing of poetry, offering workshops to foster literary and cultural understanding across Hawaii's diverse communities, and bringing together various artists and storytellers to share their work. The resolution also directs the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to report back to the Legislature with their progress, findings, and any proposed plans for implementing this program by early 2023.