President Jimmy Carter passed away today at 100. In 1995, he became the first president to publish a collection of poems in his lifetime: Always a Reckoning and Other Poems. Aside from John Quincy Adams’s epic poem, it is the only poetry book published by a living president. I intended to feature multiple selections by Carter in Poems by Presidents: The First-Ever Anthology, which was published by Dover Publications last year. That wasn’t feasible due to practical obstacles, but I…
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