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Brookline searches for an official poet

With illustrious verse-writers in its past and present, the town is looking for its first official laureate

By Kathleen Burge

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 01, 2012

Although many poets have sprung from Brookline over the years - perhaps most famously Amy Lowell, the cigar-smoking Pulitzer Prize winner - the town does not have an official poet. But last month, selectman unanimously approved creating the position for a poet laureate, who would take the written word into the community. The pay is low - $1,000 a year - but already writers have started turning in their applications to be the town’s official proliferator of poetry to the Brookline Commission for the Arts.

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