Poet Maxine Kumin Has Died

By Dianna Dilworth 

maxinekuminU.S. poet laureate Maxine Kumin has died at the age of 88, reports The Associated Press. Kumin, the author of dozens of poems, as well as works of fiction, nonfiction and a memoir, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for “Up Country.”

Here is more from the AP: “The Bennett Funeral Home in Concord says Kumin, who wrote more than three dozen books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature, died Thursday at her home in Warner after a year of failing health. Kumin was an advocate for women writers, human and political justice and animal rights. Her final work, “And Short the Season,” is scheduled to be released later this year.”

Kumin got her start publishing poems in The New Yorker. The magazine has paid tribute to the poet by sharing an audio recording of Kumin reading “Truth.”