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(CBS/AP) NEW YORK – When you heard that Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine was appointed America’s new poet laureate, you probably wondered just what a poet laureate does. Well, for starters, he – or she – receives $35,000 and is known officially from October through May as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for the U.S. The laureate has few official duties and poets before Levine have used the job to pursue a range of personal projects. For example, Billy Collins (2001-2003) started the Poetry 180 program which encourages the reading of verse in high school. The 180 refers to the 180 poems Collins selected for the program. Collins also wrote a poem to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and read it aloud at a special joint session of Congress on Sept 6, 2002. Another previous poet laureate, 함양출장안마 Robert Hass (1995-1997) went around the country lecturing on poetry and ecological awareness and organized a nationwide “Watershed” conference on nature writing. He also wrote a column about poetry for the Washington Post. What is Levine planning? “I don’t want to overextend myself, but at the same time I would like to use the ‘bully pulpit,’ as they call it, to bring attention to some of my concerns,” the 83-year-old poet told the Associated Press. “There’s a great deal of American poetry that’s hardly known and that should be...

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(CBS) Actress Emma Stone brought a generous dose of glamour to the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Help” on Tuesday. Pictures: “The Help” premiere The 22-year-old, who stars alongside Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in the big-screen adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel, donned a sheer, embellished, pink-hued top over a draped, pale gray dress, which featured a demure slit, from the Chanel Spring 2011 Couture collection. She accessorized her look with a tousled updo, tan pumps and a white chain-strap bag also from the French label. Set in 1960s Jackson, Miss., “The Help,” centers on a group of black maids and 논산출장만남 the difficult white housewives they work for. Stone plays a recent college graduate who sets off to write a book about the maids after returning to her hometown. At the film premiere, she said being a part of a female-driven cast was an amazing experience on its own. “People always tend to think that if there are a lot of women, it must be catty or it must be tough, and it wasn’t at all!” she told reporters, according to Us magazine. “It was an insanely great experience that I wish I could repeat every summer for the rest of my life!” “The Help” is now in theaters. Watch the trailer...