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The UW commissioned poet Ally Ang to write and perform a poem titled "You deserve the World" for the University’s 2021 Recognition Gala. Ally Ang is a 2021 graduate of the English department Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, with a focus on poetry. They are currently a development associate at Seattle’s Hugo House, a nonprofit writing center named for Richard Hugo, ’48, ’52, a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Read, watch, and listen to the video performance of the poem here.