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Duluth picks Sutter as first poet laureate

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Poet Barton Sutter
Barton Sutter has been chosen the first poet laureate in Duluth.
Photo by Catherine Koemptgen

The city of Duluth has something no other Minnesota city has: its own poet laureate.

Barton Sutter has lived in the city since 1987 and has won three Minnesota Book awards, including for "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" and for "The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems." Sutter teaches English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and was the unanimous choice for Poet Laureate. He began his two-year term on Saturday.

Barton Sutter talked to Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Crann.

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Poet Barton Sutter
Barton Sutter has been chosen the first poet laureate in Duluth.
Photo by Catherine Koemptgen