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Bly named Minnesota poet laureate

By David Gonnerman '90
February 28, 2008

Minnesota author Robert Bly, who attended St. Olaf for a year in his younger days, has been named the state's first poet laureate. "If it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it," the 81-year-old Bly told the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.