{"id":1245,"date":"2011-08-10T07:50:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T07:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:36:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:36:39","slug":"poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2011\/08\/10\/poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Iowa City readings from the new U.S. Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1244\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/uap\/id\/20280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1244\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2011\/08\/levine.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Philip Levine\" width=\"183\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2011\/08\/levine.jpg 183w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2011\/08\/levine-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2011\/08\/levine-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2011\/08\/levine-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Levine, from the Iowa Alumni Review, vol. 46, Jan. 1993-Dec. 1993, The University of Iowa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop graduate Philip Levine (57MFA), &#8220;best known for his big-hearted, Whitmanesque poems about working-class Detroit&#8221;\u00a0was named\u00a0the new U.S. Poet Laureate today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find him an extraordinary discovery because he introduced me to a whole new world I hadn\u2019t connected to in poetry before,\u201d\u00a0James Billington, the librarian of Congress, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/10\/books\/philip-levine-is-to-be-us-poet-laureate.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times <\/a>on Monday. \u201cHe\u2019s the laureate, if you like, of the industrial heartland. It\u2019s a very, very American voice. I don\u2019t know that in other countries you get poetry of that quality about the ordinary workingman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy these Levine readings from the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/vwu\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Writing University Archive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/vwu\/id\/1023\">Philip Levine &amp; Sam Hamill reading, Iowa City, Iowa, 1984<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/vwu\/id\/88\">An undated reading contributed by Peter Nazareth<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Nicole Saylor<br \/>\nHead, Digital Library Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop graduate Philip Levine (57MFA), &#8220;best known for his big-hearted, Whitmanesque poems about working-class Detroit&#8221;\u00a0was named\u00a0the new U.S. Poet Laureate today. &#8220;I find him an extraordinary discovery because he introduced me to a whole new world I hadn\u2019t connected to in poetry before,\u201d\u00a0James Billington, the librarian of Congress, told the New York Times<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2011\/08\/10\/poet-laureate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hear Iowa City readings from the new U.S. Poet Laureate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}