Outgoing Poet Laureate Rennie McQuilkin Confronts Illness As Just Another Journey
Rennie McQuilkin was born and raised in Pittsford, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester. His mother, Eleanor, was a poet. "I think you have to have somebody in the family preceding you as a poet, to tell you it's OK to do, so you don't think you're crazy," McQuilkin says. Not only did McQuilkin embrace...