Bucksport’s 1st poet laureate resigns

Bucksport’s 1st poet laureate resigns

Bucksport’s poet laureate has resigned after dedicating 11 years to using poetry to document life in the town and its response to the closure of its paper mill. At 85, Patricia Smith Ranzoni is less able to carry on traditions and come up with new ideas, she said in her resignation letter. She gave up the lifetime appointment to offer the opportunity to someone else, as well as to pursue a desire to focus her writing on current events outside of…