MPR’s Kate Moos reports on Minnesota’s second poet laureate, Laurene Tibbetts. Segment includes brief interview and reading.

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(00:00:00) Everywhere, that's where laraine Tibbets gets her ideas.
(00:00:04) I get them from people from nature from anything. I look at I really truthfully Kate. I can't look at anybody without seeing a story in the world. Poem
(00:00:16) Tibbets has the distinction of being one of only two poet laureates. The state has ever had the first Margaret Bell Dixon of stables was named by Governor Floyd be Olsen in 1934 and held the post until stiii there followed a span of 10 years in which the state went without a poet laureate and Lorene Tibbets was elected to the Post in 1973.
(00:00:40) It might be very difficult for my friends, you know do to you know, put up with this but I carry a notebook around and I don't feel dressed. If I don't have a
(00:00:50) notebook somewhere Tibbits says she's been writing poetry stories and plays ever since early childhood at one time. She had the pleasure of studying with Robert Frost. That bread loaf in Middlebury Vermont. She is the recipient of numerous Awards and prizes and she keeps busy editing giving readings and making appearances and of course writing her poems and stories some people call her the poet of the people
(00:01:15) I really can find some good in everyone's poetry. But many poets. I do believe do right for other poets rather than for people in general and I found this I find this to be true very often when I go around the country and am invited to to give talks or read. My poetry people are kind enough to say that they can relate to it. It's something that that they feel a part of and it's the way that I feel to
(00:01:50) poet Tibbets is often asked to write verses for special events recently. She composed a poem for the st. Paul Winter Carnival her poems cover a variety. I array of topics but this poem entitled the wandering Troubadour perhaps describes her best a
(00:02:06) Wandering Troubadour. Am I my home wherever there is Sky. I Wander Over Hills and Dell with songs to sing and tales to tell my mission is to share inverse the beauty of the universe. Four people places everywhere have stories that I long to share. A troubadour of modern times. I know that the trend from metered Rhymes but happily I skip along with narratives and rhythmic song a Wandering Troubadour. Am I with Luv of land and sea and sky I Wander Over Hills and Dell with songs to sing and tales to tell.
(00:02:59) Laurene Tibbets the poet laureate of Minnesota. This is Kate moose reporting.