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Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011

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  • PHILIP LEVINE,
  • on being chosen by the Library of Congress as the next U.S. poet laureate; Levine, 83, is best known for his poems about working-class Detroit
Photo: Frances Levine | Source: New York Times