Duluth picks Sutter as first poet laureate
Barton Sutter has been chosen the first poet laureate in Duluth.
Photo by Catherine Koemptgen
The city of Duluth has something no other Minnesota city has: its own poet laureate.
Barton Sutter has lived in the city since 1987 and has won three Minnesota Book awards, including for "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" and for "The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems." Sutter teaches English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and was the unanimous choice for Poet Laureate. He began his two-year term on Saturday.
Barton Sutter talked to Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Crann.
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