Philip Levine named U.S. Poet Laureate

The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes me on Philip Levine:

Tough yet tender poet
Philip Levine
is new U.S. laureate
August 11, 2011
By John Timpane,
Inquirer Staff Writer

Here is the paragraph from Timpane's article and my quote:

Philadelphia poet Tom Devaney says he clipped out "What Work Is" and "taped the poem onto my wall next to my desk. For Levine, work and love are the same subject. His poems are often about the working class, but the poems go further than that, illuminating work's greater meaning in all of our lives. His question of 'what work is' is a defining one, and one that reverberates poignantly in this American moment."