Simon Armitage Is U.K.’s New Poet Laureate https://nyti.ms/2vRIrZj

The role was previously declined by another distinguished poet, Imtiaz Dharker, who would have been the first person of color to hold it.
The New York Times Arts Poets Laureate, Poetry and Poets
By PETER ROBINS from NYT Arts
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