Last May, I dialled my father’s high school alma mater with a simple question. Was the poetry prize I’d set up two decades ago still operating? They’d like to maintain the poetry prize but rename that as well. My father, Richard Eberhart, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. poet laureate under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, was born in 1904. He graduated from high school as football captain and literary club president, then built a poetry career on the world stage.

Source: Huffington Post December 26, 2023 13:50 UTC