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Utah Poet Laureate Ken Brewer, whose warm, witty poems explored everything from nature to human foibles to his own mortality, died Wednesday night after a nine-month struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was 64.
Brewer died peacefully at his Providence home in Cache Valley with his wife, Roberta "Bobbie" Stearman, at his side, according to an e-mail by his friend Star Coulbrooke.
Brewer taught writing, poetry and literature at Utah State University for 32 years before retiring in 2001. Two years later, then-Gov. Mike Leavitt named him Utah's second poet laureate, succeeding his close friend David Lee.
Plans for memorial services are pending. A full obituary will appear in Friday's Salt Lake Tribune.
