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...poems and Frost’s—even more than their common grounding in the New England pastoral landscape—is their sheer accessibility to lay audiences. “I don’t think it requires any special proclivity to appreciate poetry,” Kumin says. “It just needs for you to be there and to hear...
...Just as Frost was appointed Library of Congress consultant in poetry in 1958, Kumin was named to the same position in 1981. Today, the writers who serve in that post receive the prestigious title “U.S. Poet Laureate...
...even as she was fêted by the literary establishment, Kumin maintained an activist—even rebellious—streak. In November 1998, she and Carolyn Kizer resigned as chancellors of the American Academy of Poets (AAP) to protest the absence of blacks and other minorities on the academy’s 12-member board...
...Kumin remains proud of her stand against the AAP. The academy subsequently expanded the number of chancellors to 17, of whom three are now black and seven are female. “It’s a whole new ballgame,” she says...
...diary (written partially ex-post facto) from the last half of 1998. Indeed, that year of her life will forever be defined by a “perfect midsummer day”—July 21, 1998—which launched a long nightmare from which Kumin is still emerging...