Not a bad day. The announcement went out this afternoon: The Poetry Foundation chose moi as the next Young People's Poet Laureate! That's reason enough to smile, don't you think?

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ALA is heartbroken at the passing of country music legend and literacy champion Dolly Parton. Her Imagination Library initiative, inspired by her father's inability to read or write, has put millions of books into children's hands and was considered by her to be among her greatest achievements.

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I'm looking forward to talking to Arthur Sze in Washington DC this weekend, August 22. www.loc.gov/events/2026-... I enjoyed his latest, a beautifully welcoming short book on translating poetry, "Transient Worlds" (www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/transi...)

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Michael Ondaatje, the author of “The English Patient,” pushed at and past the formal limits of expression with his poetic, expert, insouciant books, Amitava Kumar writes. www.newyorker.com/books/second...

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My latest article for TIME magazine is about four of my heroes: Cher, Dolly, Dionne and Barbra. Free link to read here: time.com/article/2026...

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