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...thought, well, I can’t be a poet. I’ll have to be something else—maybe a literary critic,” Kumin remembers...
When Harvard bestows its prestigious Arts Medal upon Maxine W. Kumin ’46 this Friday, the University will be honoring a woman whose illustrious career as a poet nearly ended in the first weeks of her freshman year...
...Kumin says that Sexton “gave me the courage to write openly about my feelings—I think I had been a rather academic, Latinate poet.” Kumin had become a formalist in part from her experience selling light verse to glossy magazines. As Sexton helped Kumin unwind, Kumin helped Sexton “see where she needed structure...
...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...
Holden, a Winthrop House resident and a literature concentrator, is a self-declared poet, and hopes to publish his own collection of poems within the next four years. “I am a poet, it is what I do the most,” says Holden, “poetry is the biggest part of me and it has always been a part of my life...