Young Named California Poet Laureate

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has named screenwriter/novelist Al Young as the state’s new poet laureate. “Young, 65, is a two-time recipient of Pushcart Prize for poetry – a national small press award – and a winner of the PEN/Library of Congress Award for short fiction. He has also taught creative writing at Stanford, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has also written film scripts for Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.”