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Poet David Ferry on Writing Verse, Winning Awards at 88

PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown profiles eighty-eight-year-old David Ferry, who was recently honored with the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize as well as the National Book Award for poetry. Ferry is currently tackling a translation of Virgil's Aeneid.

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