A new national poet laureate has been named: Philip Levine. He grew up in industrial Detroit and one of his main themes is the common worker's life.
In 1995, Levine won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "The Simple Truth."
flickr via La Grande Farmers' Market
The Simple Truth
I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes,
took them home, boiled them in their jackets
and ate them