Livermore Falls notes birthday of native Louise Bogan, the first woman to become U.S. poet laureate

LIVERMORE FALLS — “Today is Louise Bogan’s 126th birthday,” a post on the town Facebook page read Aug. 11. That note led to a quest to learn more about the woman born Aug. 11, 1897, in Livermore Falls, and who became the first female poet laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945. She died […]

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