Fairfax Woman Named U.S. Poet Laureate

Poet Kay Ryan, a long-time Marin resident, will be named the next U.S. Poet Laureate today.  The 62 year-old, became inspired to become a writer and poet while riding a bike across the country in the 1970s.  She has published six books of poetry and has won numerous awards for her work.  Read more about the newest Poet Laureate in this IJ article and this NY Times article.

"Dutch"
By Kay Ryan-

Much of life
is Dutch
one-digit
operations

in which
legions of
big robust
people crouch

behind
badly cracked
dike systems

attached
by the thumbs

their wide
balloon-pantsed rumps
up-ended to the
northern sun

while, back
in town, little
black-suspendered
tulip-magnates
stride around.