Kim Addonizio

It's the birthday of poet and novelist Kim Addonizio (books by this author), born in Washington, D.C. (1954). Her dad was a sportswriter for The Washington Post, and her mom was the tennis champion Pauline Betz. She's the author of Tell Me (2000) and What Is This Thing Called Love (2004), and her fifth book of poetry, Lucifer at the Starlite, came out in 2009. Her most recent collection is My Black Angel (2014).

She said, "Poetry is not a means to an end, but a continuing engagement with being alive."
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