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The nation’s poet laureate is Time magazine, its much-mocked style rendered here as verse:
on both sides of the iron curtain
the world heard with a thrill
of east berlin’s
rebellion in the rain …
As the execution nears, crowds stream into Times Square.
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Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
The selected poet laureate will be notified in March 2025.
—Asher Price, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
America’s poet laureate, the incandescent Ada Limón, was asked to write a poem that would be inscribed on the spacecraft.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Wilkinson is former poet laureate from Kentucky and a member of the Affrilachian Poets collective who has helped shift perceptions of Appalachian culture and rural Black America.
—Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
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Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
The selected poet laureate will be notified in March 2025.
—Asher Price, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
America’s poet laureate, the incandescent Ada Limón, was asked to write a poem that would be inscribed on the spacecraft.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Wilkinson is former poet laureate from Kentucky and a member of the Affrilachian Poets collective who has helped shift perceptions of Appalachian culture and rural Black America.
—Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
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