The Milwaukee Poet Laureate program, which was started in February 2000, aims to celebrate local poetry and is supported by the Milwaukee Public Library and the Friends of the Milwaukee Public Library ...

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By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

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