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Born September 27, 1945 (age 81) • San Jose • California
Title / Office poet laureate (2008-2010)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2004)
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Charles Wright
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Louise Glück
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American poet
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Mona Van Duyn
American poet
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Philip Levine
American poet
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Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
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Robert Frost, 1954
Robert Frost
American poet
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Sylvia Plath
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W. H. Auden
British poet
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Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
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Rita Dove
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Robert Lowell
American poet

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