Kay Ryan, 62, an openly lesbian woman, has been named the nation's 16th
poet laureate.
Known for her sly, compact poems that revel in wordplay and internal rhymes, Ms. Ryan has won a carriage full of poetry prizes for her funny and philosophical work, including awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1994, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, worth $100,000.
Ryan has published six books of poetry and her work can regularly be found in the
The New Yorker.
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Kay Ryan, 62, an openly lesbian woman, has been named the nation's 16th poet laureate.
