{"id":1450,"date":"2011-08-12T14:09:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T14:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2011-08-12T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T14:14:10","slug":"congrats-to-philip-levine-our-new-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2011\/08\/congrats-to-philip-levine-our-new-poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Philip Levine, our new Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news in poetry is that <strong>Philip Levine<\/strong> is the new <strong>U.S. Poet Laureate<\/strong> so we want to wish him congratulations! \u00a0Two of his poems (<strong>&#8220;Songs&#8221;<\/strong> and <strong>&#8220;Waking in Alicante&#8221;<\/strong>) appear in <em>Solace in So Many Words<\/em>. Our admiration for his writing was the reason we contacted Philip Levine, and our admiration for him grew as we worked with him. \u00a0Phil is down-to-earth and approachable, just like his poetry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"il_fi\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cortlandreview.com\/issue\/7\/levine-big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To learn more about Philip Levine and his latest appointment, you can read his biography posted by the <a title=\"Poetry Foundation -- Philip Levine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/philip-levine\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry Foundation<\/a>, or the one posted by \u00a0the Academy of American Poets at <a title=\"Poets.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/19\" target=\"_blank\">Poets.org<\/a>, or the article from his hometown paper,\u00a0<em><a title=\"The Fresno Bee-- Philip Levine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/2011\/08\/09\/2494078\/fresnos-philip-levine-named-nations.html\" target=\"_blank\">The\u00a0<em>F<\/em>resno Bee<\/a>. <\/em>But if you really want to learn about Philip Levine, read his books: \u00a0<em>New Selected Poems<\/em>, <em>What Work Is<\/em>,<em> The Simple Truth<\/em>, <em>Unselected Poems<\/em>, <em>The Mercy<\/em>, <em>Breath<\/em> and <em>News of the World <\/em>are just the latest of his many titles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Photo: \u00a9 Frances Levine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news in poetry is that Philip Levine is the new U.S. Poet Laureate so we want to wish him congratulations! \u00a0Two of his poems (&#8220;Songs&#8221; and &#8220;Waking in Alicante&#8221;) appear in Solace in So Many Words. Our admiration for his writing was the reason we contacted Philip Levine, and our admiration for him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[455,456,18,127,12,451,23,449,359,13,20,7,16,454,453,450,32,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-1450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-songs","8":"tag-waking-in-alicante","9":"tag-anthology","10":"tag-contributors-2","11":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","12":"tag-fresno","13":"tag-gratitude","14":"tag-news-of-the-world","15":"tag-philip-levine","16":"tag-poetry","17":"tag-publication","18":"tag-solace","19":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","20":"tag-the-mercy","21":"tag-the-simple-truth","22":"tag-us-poet-laureate","23":"tag-weighed-words","24":"tag-what-work-is","25":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}