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Sunday, February 15, 2015

RIP Philip Levine 1928-2015

Philip Levine died yesterday at eighty-seven. The U.S. Poet Laureate from 2011-2012, he composed poems that were, as Margalit Fox writes in The New York Times, “vibrantly, angrily, and often painfully alive with the sound, smell, and sinew of heavy manual labor.”



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