Ellen Bryant Voigt, Poet With a Musical Ear, Dies at 82

Ellen Bryant Voigt, Poet With a Musical Ear, Dies at 82

Her nine volumes included “Kyrie,” a suite of sonnets about the 1918 influenza epidemic. She was also Pulitzer Prize finalist and a poet laureate of Vermont.

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