Article: Hub's poets have their say in annual Herald contest.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: Rosemary Herbert

Winners of the second annual Herald Community Book Club's Poetry Contest know how to tell it like it is - even if some shun sweetness to do it.

So said Robert Pinsky, former U.S. poet laureate, at an awards ceremony Thursday honoring 11 prize-winning poets at the Cambridge Public Library's Central Square branch. "A work of art is an exercise in many things but not necessarily an exercise in being nice," he said, smiling mischievously.

Pinsky's fellow judge, Alice Quinn, made it clear how powerfully emotions can be conveyed even when a poet does not tell all. Quinn, the poetry editor of The New Yorker and head of the ...

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