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Remembering Philip Levine’s poetic odes to honest work

Clip: 2/16/2015 | 3m 3s

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine has died at age 87.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine has died at age 87. A former auto factory worker, Levine often wrote about working class life. He published more than 20 volumes of verse and was named U.S. poet laureate from 2011 to 2012. We revisit a 2010 profile of Levine by Jeffrey Brown.

02/16/2015 | Rating NR

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