Meet America’s New Poet Laureate
Philip Levine has already won nearly every major prize for his poetry, including two Guggenheims and a Pulitzer, and now he’s America’s newest poet laureate. The Library of Congress named him to the one-year position today; he succeeds WS Merwin. Growing up, Levine hated “prissy” poetry, which led him to…
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Meet America’s New Poet Laureate
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