Philip Levine, the Detroit native and former Poet Laureate of the U.S. who considered Brooklyn Heights his real home, and who once wrote a poem about an incident on the Promenade, died this past Saturday at his other home in California. His Heights neighbor, Michael Bourne, remembers him fondly:
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RIP Philip Levine, Brooklyn Heights Resident and Former Poet Laureate
By Claude Scales on February 16, 2015 5:45 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Celebrity Residents, Obituaries, Poetry
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