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J. Patrick Lewis

'Poetry should be read out loud even if you are all alone in a room.'

By Maryann Yin on April 3, 2013 2:23 AM

Happy National Poetry Month! All throughout April, we will interview poets about working in this digital age. Recently, we spoke with J. Patrick Lewis, the United States’current children’s poet laureate.

Lewis (pictured, via) worked as an economics professor for many years. The sighting of a moonbow (a white rainbow) inspired him to write his first children’s story. Read entire article published in Galley Cat.