Fat Pets On

Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) was the recipient of a number of prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award. She published eighteen books of poetry, most recently, Where I Live: New and Selected Poems (2011). From 1981–1982, she served as the poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (now called U.S. Poet Laureate).