"Minnesota Blue," a wistful poem that celebrates the state's golden fields of wheat and corn shimmering in the early morn, was written by a singer-songwriter in Hawaii who left Minnesota in 1958.

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US Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman reads “The Hill We Climb” during the 59th inaugural ceremony. (Patrick Semansky / Getty Images) This article is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global ...

Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that ...