The City Paper also reviews Venango poet Phil Terman's new book Rabbis of the Air:
Much of the imagery derives from the Clarion University English professor’s life in rural Venango County, where woods and fields, the wildlife and a vegetable garden inspire his lyrics to literally lip-smacking lushness:
The demonstrations of the ineffable —
The robin’s gorging in the blueberry bush,
The hummingbird’s delicate visitation of the lilac,
The rain’s every-so-often downpour,
Then its slowly reminiscing.
Charles Simic has been named the country’s 15th poet laureate.
But perhaps more importantly, the National Endowment for the Arts has announced a new literature director
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