[New-Poetry] Simic Laureled---

[Anny Ballardini]

I'm very happy you like Simic!

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  Subject: [New-Poetry] Simic Laureled---


  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

  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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