Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate

By CHARLES McGRATH, New York Times, August 10, 2011

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“It’s like winning the Pulitzer. If you take it too seriously, you’re an idiot. But if you look at the names of the other poets who have won it, most of them are damn good.” — Philip Levine

Philip Levine, whose poems capture the industrial heartland, is to be the next United States poet laureate.

Full story at the New York Times.