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At 87, Poet Laureate Philip Levine Jazzed It Up

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Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Levine, died in Fresno at 87 recently. Levine was an avid jazz lover, and in the last few years of his life, he collaborated with Fresno State jazz professor Benjamin Boone to set more than two dozen poems to music.

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