June 18th, 2010
The Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism has announced that Dick Allen of Trumbull, CT, is Connecticut’s new Poet Laureate. Allen will serve a five year term from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2015. He succeeds Poet Laureate John Hollander. Previous CT Poet Laureates include Marilyn Nelson, Leo Connellan and James Merrill. Allen has appeared in several issues of Smartish Pace and you can hear him read all of his SP poems, along with photographs of him and his home, in the media section of this website.
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