Former U.S. Poet Laureate Maxine Kumin reads seven poems at the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar, including "Looking for Luck in Bangkok."
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Maxine Kumin reads seven poems at the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar, including "Looking for Luck in Bangkok."
Photo-caption highlights from "Clearing the Sill of the World," the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar. An extraordinary literary event, which brought together seven U.S. Poets Laureate, as many winners of the Pulitzer Prize, up-and-coming poetic talents, and a truly remarkable audience of readers, writers, teachers, and poetry lovers of all stripe.
<em>Clearing the sill of the world</em>, the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar, will feature a cast of poets including seven past and present United States Poets Laureate. The office, appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress since 1937, exists to "raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry," and serve as "the nation's official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans."
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