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The President’s ‘Kitchen Cabinet’, How Writings On Detention Center Walls Inspired Colorado Poet

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Your perception of George Washington may change when you hear about how he treated the first presidential cook. The story comes out of Denver author Adrian Miller's new book, "The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of African-Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families." Then, writing on the walls of an immigrant detention center inspired Denver poet Teow Lim Goh. The poems in the men's barracks are still there, but the women's were destroyed in a fire. Goh imagines what those lost poems may have been in her latest collection called "Islanders."