[New-Poetry] Simic Laureled---

[JforJames at aol.com]

Anny picked this up first, but here's another annoucement of Simic being  
namedd our Poet Laureate.
A great choice, I think. A great choice in these times...
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_http://
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/02/ap/entertainment/main3128916.shtml_ 
(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/02/ap/entertainment/main3128916.shtml) 
 
Immigrant Simic To Be U.S. Poet Laureate
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet  Simic, An Immigrant, To Serve As New U.S. Poet  
Laureate

CONCORD, N.H., Aug. 2, 2007
 

(AP) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who learned English as  a 
teenage immigrant, will be the new U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress  
announced Thursday.
 
Simic, who lives in Strafford, will replace another New Hampshire poet,  
Donald Hall of Wilmot, the poet laureate program, which promotes poetry across  
the nation.
 
"I'm overwhelmed," he said. 




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