Famed Long Island poet Cornelius Eady and his novelist wife, Sarah Micklem, have listed their historic 1860 farmhouse for $675,000.

Eady, a National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet, and Micklem, bought their Long Island retreat in Center Moriches for $349,000 in 2017, according to property records.

At the time, Eady was teaching at SUNY Stony Brook and director of its Poetry Center. 6

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Eady is known for his moving poems, like “Gratitude.”

He also penned a 2001 poem, “Brutal Imagination,” that was based on a story ripped from the headlines. In 1994 a South Carolina woman named Susan Smith strapped her two sons into her car and rolled it into a lake, then blamed the horrific crime on a fictitious black man who supposedly hijacked her car with her boys. It to

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