Por: The Boston Globe Nation March 01, 2023
The town of Westwood has its first poet laureate: Lynne Viti, whose latest poetry collection — “The Walk to Cefalu” — came out in September.The Select Board voted Feb. 27 to name Viti to the post through June 2025, with the goal of encouraging the reading and writing of poetry, mentoring a teen poet, and writing several poems for local events and holidays. The position pays $500 annually.Viti plans include holding community poetry slams... + full article
The Atlantic USA Life February 01, 2023
Remembering the poet and novelist James Dickey on his centennialThe Atlantic; Library of Congress; Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library / Emory University; Will & Deni McIntyre / GettyFebruary 1, 2023, 7 AM ETIf you asked 10 Americans, “Who was James... + más
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The Boston Globe USA Nation January 11, 2023
The cruelty that poet Charles Simic witnessed as a boy in Serbia during World War II surfaced in verses that combined childlike innocence with a poet’s eye for an arresting image.In he watched, at 6 years old, as Nazis marched past his family’s Belgrade home:The earth... + más
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Los Angeles Times USA Politics December 12, 2022
Los Angeles native Amanda Gorman performed an original poem at Mayor Karen Bass' inauguration, echoing her January 2021 star-making turn as the youngest presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history. Gorman, who turned 24 in March, appeared Sunday at the Microsoft Theater,... + más
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Los Angeles Times USA Entertainment November 19, 2022
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday appointed Lee Herrick, a Fresno-based writer and professor, to be the state's poet laureate, citing a body of work that explores the diversity and vitality of the California experience and the exhilarating success of the American experiment.... + más
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Los Angeles Times USA Entertainment October 31, 2022
Gerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died. He was 97. Stern, New Jersey’s first poet laureate, died... + más
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WPLG Local 10 USA Entertainment October 30, 2022
NEW YORK – Gerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died. He was 97.Stern, New Jersey’s first poet laureate,... + más
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10 WBNS USA Nation October 30, 2022
NEW YORK — Gerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died. He was 97. Stern, New Jersey’s first poet... + más
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