'An exciting time to be a poet': Middlesex teacher named Milford's poet laureate Bill Bloxsom FacebookTwitterEmail Joan Kwon Glass is Milford's second Poet Laureate.Milford Library / Contributed photo MILFORD — Although Joan Kwon Glass has been writing poetry since she was in kindergarten, the national spotlight that President Joe Biden’s inauguration shone on poets has made this an especially exciting time to be one. “I think the presidential inauguration brought poetry to the forefront when Amanda Gorman was chosen to recite her poem ‘The Hill We Climb,’” said Glass, who teaches social studies in Darien. “She was the first National Youth Poet Laureate to do so. I think bringing in a young person got people excited,” Glass said. “It is an exciting time to be a poet, and I want to run off that energy here in Milford.”