New Poet Laureate: Phil Levine!
OMG, my former thesis adviser is now U.S. Poet Laureate! Outstanding!! The right poet for these times.
From The Washington Post:
Congratulations, Phil!!!
From The Washington Post:
“What I found was a voice within myself that I didn’t know was there,” said Levine, now 83. “A joy in my being, in creation, in the physical world that surrounded me.
“It began with a love of just the language. There was nothing that I had ever read that moved me as powerfully as some of the poetry I read. . . . Poems were something I could memorize and carry with me, and recite them in my head, and live with them.”
Congratulations, Phil!!!
Comments
I first heard Levine read nearly 40 years ago and immediately went out and bought his work.
Here's another lovely recollection:
http://latinopoetryreview.blogspot.com/2011/08/robert-vazquez-on-philip-levine.html