Monday, October 25, 2010

New Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin

Today W.S. Merwin takes over the duties of US Poet Laureate.  (Read more about Merwin.)

On July 1, 2010, the Library of Congress announced the appointment of Merwin as the Library's seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. (Read NYTimes article and interview from this summer.)

Merwin was previously interviewed by Anne Moore Odell and Pablo Peschiera for issue seven of Third Coast, Fall 1998. Back copies of the issue are available for $6.  Contact the managing editor for details or click here.

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