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W.S. Merwin is the new U.S. poet laureate

By Harriet Staff

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From the NYT:

W. S. Merwin acknowledges that his relatively reclusive life on a former pineapple plantation built atop a dormant volcano in Maui, Hawaii, will be disturbed by the Library of Congress’s announcement on Thursday naming him the country’s poet laureate . . .


Posted in Poetry News on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 by Harriet Staff.