<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Dear everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)">I recently published my first poetry anthology. <span style="background-color:transparent">I invite you to check it out: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9SMJRYT" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9SMJRYT</a></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)">More information below</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Best regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Taiwo</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)">***</div></div><div>Some journeys change where we are going. Others change who we are becoming.<br style="font-size:inherit"><br style="font-size:inherit"><b>Excellence with a Soul (Poetry)</b> was born from moments of reflection, hope, faith, and the quiet lessons found in life's stops, turns, bends, and twists. Every poem in this collection carries a piece of that journey.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </span><b>Excellence with a Soul: The Journeys (Part I)</b> is now available in English and French, in paperback and Kindle/eBook editions<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">on Amazon:</font></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9SMJRYT" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9SMJRYT</a><div><br></div></div><div>I hope the<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"></span><font color="#000000"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">se words</span> </font>encourage you to embrace your own journey with courage and purpose.<br style="font-size:inherit"></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:blue"><a href="http://taiwoafolabi.com/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">Taiwo Afolabi</a>, Ph.D., C.Dir.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><a href="https://cset.ca/our-people/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">Full Professor</a> and <a href="https://www.sasktoday.ca/regina-today/regina-news/international-partnership-connects-u-of-r-and-howard-university-10930940" target="_blank">Executive Strategic Advisor</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=5322" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt">Founder and Director, </span><a href="https://cset.ca/" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre</a><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"> (C-SET), University of Regina, Canada</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><a href="https://www.stlhe.ca/award_winners/2025-3m-national-teaching-fellows/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">3M National Teaching Fellow (2025)</a></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><a href="https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/a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