News at Eleven: Purchasing The Ellsworth American in Ellsworth,

Maine, in 1971, opened a new chapter in [James Russell] Wiggins’ life as a poet. Every week for nearly 30 years, he wrote a poem for the editorial page of the paper. (Since his death in 2000, the American has continued to print a poem each week, recycling the hundreds written over several decades.)

from The Ellsworth American: The Poetry of James Russell Wiggins

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