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Working-Class Poet Levine Named Nation's Next Laureate

Clip: 8/10/2011 | 6m 34s

Working-Class Poet Levine Named Nation's Next Laureate

Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was named Wednesday as the next poet laureate of the United States. Jeffrey Brown profiled Levine last year.

08/10/2011

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