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Originally Published: June 17, 2010Wimbeldon's first laureate of the lawn speaks
The Los Angeles Times profiles the first Wimbledon poet-in-residence, Matt Harvey:
"I plan to publish a poem a day," he told Helen Gilbert on the official Wimbledon website. "I'm going to write more about Wimbledon the event than the matches. I'm going to write about the grass, umpires, people having their first Wimbledon strawberries, line judges, daydreams, pressure, Fred Perry's statue, the roof, the falcon and the queue.